On the night that John McClane (played by Bruce Willis), an New York City cop, is visiting his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia)
in a 40-story Nakatomi building in LA, German
terrorists seize control of the building. McClane is able to slip away unnoticed and starst taking out the terrorists one by one.
What can I say? Great plot, based on Roderick Thorp's novel and screenplay delivered by fantastic Jeb Stuart. It is a well-though storyline that captures audience from the beginning. In my opinion this is Bruce Willis' best movie by far. Also Alan Rickman performs exceptionally well as a German terrorist leader Hans Gruber. Hans is multi-dimensional person. On the one hand, he shoots people's brain's out without blinking and yet he also enjoys men's fashion and seems cultured.
Once the movie gets going there is stunning non-stop action and violence. The picture offers
entertaining dialog, magnificent thrills and impressive special effects. Everything that well -balanced action movie wants to be.
What makes this interesting is that McClane is sort of a one-man againts others, nobody likes him, not LAPD or FBI, not even his wife. Yet he comes out like a real McCoy and starts fighting againts the evil. He suffers wounds and is acting like a normal human being. I like the realism of this movie. It is difficult to find in action movies today. There is only one person, Al Powell a LA street cop, that is the only support outside the building.
Die Hard is the most entertaining two hours action blast one can only imagine. Therefore it can be said that is truly the best action movie ever made.