Film
Die Hard With a Vengeance
- Director
- John McTiernan
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 128 mins
Shortly after someone lets a bomb off in the middle of New York, the police get a call from a man calling himself ‘Simon’ (Jeremy Irons) who demands that vesty avenger Bruce Willis shows up in Harlem or more big bangs will ensue. This is a bad time for our Bruce because he’s on suspension, separated from his wife, and suffering from a hangover. At least this time he’s got a mate, Harlem electrical repair shop owner Samuel L. Jackson, to accompany him on a series of increasingly difficult and preposterous tasks.
Of course, this 1995 threequel is nowhere near as good as the first Die Hard, but still has some truly excellent stunts, explosions and effects to embellish its stupid-but-slick script. Disappointments are few. Irons isn’t as good as Alan Rickman, whose brother ‘Simon’ turns out to be, but then he is lumbered with a stupid German accent. And the curious not-quite-as-spectacular-as-what-went-before ending it the result of a hasty re-shoot in the wake of the Oklahoma bombing.
It’s back on screen in the Everyman’s Saturday late night season of cult classics.
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