- Film Review
- Reviewed By Andrew Collins
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5 out of 5
This is the action thriller that minted Bruce Willis's career, launched a franchise and still stands as a giant of the genre. Recalling the disaster movies of the 1970s, it places a group of people in peril (office workers at a Christmas party in an otherwise empty Los Angeles skyscraper) when suave Alan Rickman and his Euro-terrorists take them hostage. One man (Willis, naturally) is charged with saving them. Director John McTiernan handles the bravura, vertigo-inducing set pieces with aplomb and the script oozes dry wit, but the star of the show is Willis, as resourceful but world-weary off-duty cop John McClane, who just wants to get home for Christmas dinner.
Plot Summary
Action thriller starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman. New York cop John McClane gets caught up in a terrorist plot after arriving in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his estranged wife Holly and his two children. When Holly is taken hostage in the offices of the Japanese corporation she works for, McClane launches a daring rescue attempt.
Cast and crew
Cast
- John McClane
- Bruce Willis
- Hans Gruber
- Alan Rickman
- Holly Gennaro McClane
- Bonnie Bedelia
- Sergeant Al Powell
- Reginald VelJohnson
- Dwayne T Robinson
- Paul Gleason
- Argyle
- De'Voreaux White
- Thornburg
- William Atherton
- Harry Ellis
- Hart Bochner
- Takagi
- James Shigeta
- Karl
- Alexander Godunov
- Franco
- Bruno Doyon
- Tony
- Andreas Wisniewski
- Theo
- Clarence Gilyard Jr
- Alexander
- Joey Plewa
- Agent Johnson
- Robert Davi
- Agent Johnson
- Grand L Bush
- Uli
- Al Leong
Crew
- Director
- John McTiernan
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