- Actors: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov, Reginald VelJohnson
- Directors: John McTiernan
- Writers: Jeb Stuart, Roderick Thorp, Steven E. de Souza
- Producers: Beau Marks, Charles Gordon, Joel Silver, Lawrence Gordon
- Format: Special Edition, NTSC
- Language: English, German, Italian
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Fox Video
- VHS Release Date: Aug 26 2003
- Run Time: 131 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (96 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005K9OX
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#22,961 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
- #20 in Video > Action & Adventure > Action Stars > Bruce Willis
- #27 in DVD > Action & Adventure > Series & Sequels > Die Hard
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This seminal 1988 thriller made Bruce Willis a star and established a new template for action stories: "Terrorists take over a (blank) and a lone hero, unknown to the villains, is trapped with them." In Die Hard, those bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has to do with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter. Exceptionally well-directed by John McTiernan. --Tom Keogh
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This seminal 1988 thriller made Bruce Willis a star and established a new template for action stories: "Terrorists take over a (blank), and a lone hero, unknown to the villains, is trapped with them." In Die Hard, those bad guys, led by the velvet-voiced Alan Rickman, assume control of a Los Angeles high-rise with Willis's visiting New York cop inside. The attraction of the film has as much to do with the sight of a barefoot mortal running around the guts of a modern office tower as it has to do with the plentiful fight sequences and the bond the hero establishes with an LA beat cop. Bonnie Bedelia plays Willis's wife, Hart Bochner is good as a brash hostage who tries negotiating his way to freedom, Alexander Godunov makes for a believable killer with lethal feet, and William Atherton is slimy as a busybody reporter. Exceptionally well directed by John McTiernan. --Tom Keogh
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Yippee Ki Yay,
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This review is from: Die Hard (DVD)
wow.i forgot how great this movie is.this movie has it all.this is onethrill ride of a movie.all you need to know is this:terrorists have taken control of a high rise building and have hostages.the only thing standing in their way is one man:John McClane(Bruce Willis.)Bruce Willis puts in a great performance as McClane,who becomes a one man army.this movie is so much fun,you won't care(or have time to care) about realism.this movie raised the bar for the action genre.it doesn't take long to get going either,and you'll wonder where the tow hours went.if you're an action junkie,and you haven't seen this movie,what are you waiting for?for me Die Hard is a 5/5
5.0 out of 5 stars
If at first you succeed, why try again?,
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This review is from: Die Hard [UMD for PSP] (DVD)
This is the first and best of the Die Hard movies. It is action packed from start to finish. A New York cop (Bruce Willis) goes to visit his estranged wife for Christmas and finds himself caught up in the middle of an apparent terrorist attack on the office building his wife works in. The terrorists however turn out to be nothing more than thieves trying to get their hands on $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds.The movie is action packed almost from the start, one of the best movies of it's kind I've ever seen.
2.0 out of 5 stars
"Do I sound like I'm ordering a pizza?",
By Steven Y. "Pop Culture Addict" (Marvel Universe 616) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Die Hard: Five Star Collection (Widescreen) (DVD)
John McTiernan's "Die Hard" is one of the more celebrated entries in the action-adventure genre. Yet, the film upon close inspection is really just another "shoot-'em-up" production that ultimately wears out its welcome long before the final baddie is gunned down.John McClane (Bruce Willis) is a New York police officer who has arrived in Los Angeles for Christmas. His wife (Bonnie Bedelia) has accepted a vice-president position with Nakatomi Corporation. While McClane is attending a Christmas party at his wife's new office building, a group of terrorists led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) seize the high-rise so that they may steal millions of dollars in negotiable bonds. McClane takes it upon himself to defeat the terrorists and free the hostages they have taken. "Die Hard" does introduce some novel aspects to the genre - it's a nice change of pace to see an everyman hero instead of the typical secret agent or military super-soldier at the center of an action film, it's nice to see an action hero with a sensitive side, and it's also nice to see a villain with a degree of sophistication. But "Die Hard" intermixes these elements with so many loud explosions and gunfights that one becomes numb after awhile. Throw in too many supporting characters who are deficient in the intelligence department and one inexcusable resurrection at the end, and all you're left with is a film that is great to look at but nothing more. Willis more than proves he can play an action hero and Bedelia adds a welcome degree of charm to the proceedings. Yet, "Die Hard" turns out to be only a smidgen better than its action contemporaries from the period and that is not enough to make it something special.
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