Die Hard (1988)
It's Christmas Eve, and there's an employee party in progress on the 30th floor of the Nakatomi Corporation building. New York City Detective John McClane becomes the only hope for a small group of hostages, one of whom is his estranged wife, trapped in a Los Angeles high-rise office building when it is seized by a group of terrorists headed by Hans Gruber, who plan to steal the 600 million dollars locked in Nakatomi's high-tech safe.
17 June 1929, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
28 November 1949, Sakhalin, Sakhalinskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
2 February 1935, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 February 1951
10 May 1958, Vienna, Austria
16 August 1952, Queens, New York, USA
October 25, 2014
A masterpiece of populist filmmaking.
July 09, 2013
For all its moments of almost overwhelming cheese, Die Hard is still the definitive action thriller.
July 09, 2013
As a grand flourish of cinematic technique, it is awesome; as a human drama, it is disgusting and silly, a mindless depiction of carnage on an epic scale.
July 09, 2013
Willis gleefully strips down the action movie to a pretend game for children who like to fire guns and shoot bad guys. Machismo may never be the same.
December 05, 2008
In the first half of Director John McTiernan's movie, Willis wears an undershirt. In the second half he gets rid of it. And that's pretty much it for his performance.
July 09, 2013
Die Hard is an action picture with a capital A. In fact, you might as well go ahead and capitalize the whole darn word.
November 27, 2007
Die Hard is as high tech, rock hard and souped up as an action film can be.
July 09, 2013
McTiernan, who directed last summer's Predator, composes the action cleanly and logically, making good use of Jackson DeGovia's elaborate post-modernist set-the building becomes something of a character in itself.
September 28, 2014
Yippee-ki-yay, action fans.
July 09, 2013
Die Hard is probably the most manipulative movie I've seen this year, but since it makes no bones about being manipulative and does it so well, this not only isn't a problem -- it's fun.
July 28, 2015
There are good performances from everyone in this long, often funny, very violent but exciting melodrama.
July 09, 2013
Within the narrow framework of the hard-action genre, Die Hard is almost as good as it gets.
