Die Hard (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 4 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 20, 2007
  • Originally Released: 1988
  • Label: 20Th Century Studios

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Rating: 4/5 -- From the superb pacing through to the sarcastically sinister villainy of Alan Rickman, this remains a crucial template for the modern action film. Full Review
Herald Sun (Australia)
Jul 12, 2018
Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Jan 7, 2000
Die Hard is an action picture with a capital A. In fact, you might as well go ahead and capitalize the whole darn word. Full Review
Orlando Sentinel
Jul 9, 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. Full Review
Los Angeles Times
Jul 9, 2013
A seductive mix of machismo and humility, Willis reinvented the reluctant hero for the action age.
Premiere
Apr 1, 2004
The picture is extremely violent: bombs go off, bullets rip through flesh, heads are slammed against steel. But Die Hard is also smart, satirical-and, in an odd way, heartwarming. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Oct 29, 2019
...A triumph of well-oiled mechanical precision that performs miracles of destruction. As a grand flourish of cinematic technique, it is awesome...
Los Angeles Times
Jul 15, 1988

Product Description:

One of the greatest action movies of the late 1980s, DIE HARD ushered in a new standard for the genre. With the dissolution of the Cold War, both the stereotypical Russian threat (represented in movies such as TOP GUN and RED DAWN) and the destructive egoist (as seen in OCTOPUSSY) became less fearful. With DIE HARD, director John McTiernan introduced Hollywood to a new type of villain: the terrorist entrepreneur. Alan Rickman stars as Hans Gruber, a relentless businessman whose lethal tactics achieve his goals. Unlike most '80s film villains who committed globally dangerous acts for liberty, genocide, or megalomania, DIE HARD's Gruber uses guns, explosives, and cunning to storm the Takagi Corporation's Christmas party and heist millions of dollars from the company. In addition, DIE HARD also saw the development of the clumsy or bad luck hero with John McClane (Bruce Willis), a man in the wrong place at the wrong time who chooses to intervene. Action fans would see this misfit hero archetype again in UNDER SIEGE (Steven Segal) and THE PHANTOM MENACE (Jar Jar Binks). Although DIE HARD contains many action movie cliches (one-liners, pyrotechnics), it also broke new ground in its genre.

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