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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,
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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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date: 31 March 2003
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 5039036013321
Tags: Action (2), Thriller (2), Christmas (2), AFI Top 100 Thrills (1), Explosives (1), Vanity Fair 50 Greatest Films Of All Time (1), AFI Top 50 Villains (1), Essential Cinema (1), Bonds (1), Hart Bochner (1), Stuffed Animal (1), Estranged Wife (1), C4 Explosives (1), Vault (1), Terrorists (1), 20th Century Fox (1), Cigarettes (1), Lighter (1), Sniper Rifle (1)
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