![]() ![]() ![]() We feel as if we're watching Bruce Willis in a Bruce Willis movie in which Bruce Willis can survive anything while taking out the villains, video-game style. "Die Hard" worked because we got to know McClane (and the bad guys) before the body count started piling up.Ī quarter-century later, McClane has been stripped of any real traces of an actual three-dimensional character. ![]() But director John McTiernan delivered a first-rate action film that became an instant classic: the perfect vehicle for Willis to showcase his wise-ass but slightly vulnerable persona. ![]() Granted, in the original "Die Hard," John and Holly probably wouldn't get back together without Hans crashing the Nakatomi holiday party. Now, with "A Good Day to Die Hard," McClane has to go all the way to Russia and battle yet another bunch of ruthless master criminals and their henchmen just to get a little closure with his son, to whom he hasn't spoken in years. You'd think McClane's kids would give him a break for not being there for every dance recital and Little League game, but in " Live Free or Die Hard" (2007), it took an attack by a team of cyber-terrorists to reunite him with his estranged daughter. ![]()
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