A good movie

In fact, I was this movie in the theater when it was released and I was about 15 years old  at the time (back then, it was the highest grossing movie of the year). Yesterday, I re-watched it again about 17 years later with Nick, my step-son who is now 15 years old and it doesn’t get cooler than that. Even though this flick is not as awesome as the first legendary installment, it is still an improvement on the second movie and it is a really solid action flick, no doubt about it. Indeed, the action scenes were really cool and it was a great choice to move the action to New York. Above all, it was a great move to give McClane a decent sidekick and who else than Samuel L. Jackson could deliver such a bad-ass performance against one of the most iconic characters? Jackson just had his breakthrough performance in ‘Pulp Fiction’ a year before and in 2000, he and Willis will be reunited again for ‘Unbreakable’, another fine (and really underrated) feature. Furthermore, Jeremy Irons was also a very good villain. Sometimes, there are some discussions about the fact that Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons are in fact British portraying German bad guys and some argue it was a strange choice. I think the nationality of the actors and the characters is rather irrelevant in my opinion. Indeed, Rickman and Irons are some amazing actors and that’s why they were both pretty awesome in this franchise. Still, even though I enjoyed most of it, this movie was still not really flawless. Indeed, after a while, the whole thing kind of lost some steam after a great start. Furthermore, one of the greatest issues with this franchise is that each installment has to be bigger, louder and more convoluted than the previous movie and, this time, the victim was the plot has the whole thing was pretty far-fetched. I mean, it was fun and entertaining, that’s for sure, but I never believed in what was happening and it was hardly as engaging as the first installment was. Still, to conclude, even though I’m not a huge fan of action movies, I really like this one and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

7/10