Die Hard
1988 | Action | USA | Directed by John McTiernan
Overview
A cop in a Los Angeles skyscraper, barefoot, against twelve terrorists on Christmas Eve. Bruce Willis was a TV comedy gamble, and Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber redefined villains as bored geniuses. McTiernan directed architecture: stairwells, vents, glass. The formula spawned decades of copies set on whatever. The modern action movie, single location, fully loaded.
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