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 enlarge | Director: John Mctiernan
Actors: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald Veljohnson, Paul Gleason
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: Video
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 2196
Format: Closed-captioned, Dolby, Pal, Surround Sound
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Italian (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 126 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
EAN: 5024165700495
ASIN: B00004CIPK
Theatrical Release Date: July 15, 1988
Release Date: September 16, 1996
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One of the best action movies ever! November 4, 2008
This is a stunning film. It's got tension, great lines, some fantastic action and a brilliant performance from Bruce Willis. Some really gripping, edge of seat action. A great movie!
Welcome to the party, Powell! April 9, 2008
I have to say that this is one film which I cannot find fault with. It has to be my all time favourite film, and it's something which you can watch again and again and never tire of.
The script is fantastic, and who better to play the part of John MClane than Bruce Willis - he's a brilliant action figure and is also very funny when he wants to be. Alan Rickman also makes a fantastic villian.
To give an overall plot summary, John Mclane is returning from New York to visit his wife Holly at her workplace in the Nakatomi Plaza. Little does he know though that the Plaza is about to be seized by a gang of thieves posing as terrorists who plan to hold everyone in the Plaza hostage until they get through to the building's vault and steal $640 million. Mclane is the only one who hasn't been found by the thieves and must do everything he can to stop them.
I think one of my favourite scenes is when Mclane throws one of the thieves through the window onto Officer Powell's car - pure genius and hilarious. Although Die Hard with a Vengeance is very good, I still think that this film is by far the best out of all of them, and I strongly recommend you buying it!
The Best Action Movie EVER... March 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an absolute classic to it's core, it could be nothing else. It has explosions, comedy, stunts and evil Germans, what more do you need? Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman make this movie, playing off one another's sarcastic remarks at every oppertunity. It's a story of a very unlucky police officer who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when Alan Rickman and his evil buddies come rolling in to spoil an office Christmas party. Bruce Willis slips out of sight to try and save everyone, and so the fun begins. The constant string of jokes makes this movie like nothing else in it's genre. Though this is definetly an action movie through and through, with guns, explosives and a high body count. A classic in it's own right and also as the first of a great series, this film is one of those rare gems that anyone can watch over and over again.
The weather outside is frightful, but McClane's stuck indoors October 8, 2007
Bruce Willis plays John McClane, a swaggering New York cop who arrives in LA to patch things up with his wife, Holly (Bonnie Bedelia, who would be sorely missed in the second sequel). Unfortunately, Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) has also come to town. He takes Holly and her work colleagues hostage on the 30th floor in a bid to bide time while his goons break into the vault to steal 600 million dollars in bearer bonds. McClane, meanwhile, is loose amongst the building's lift shafts and air vents, picking off Gruber's men with a pistol and a one-liner.
Let's leave aside the Nakatomi Plaza's phallic presence (complete with climactic rooftop explosion) and concentrate on the people in it. John McClane: he's the sort of action hero who can chain smoke filterless European cigarettes before sprinting up four flights of stairs, having a fist fight and then leaping off a 40-storey building with a fire hose wrapped round his waist. Gruber, paradoxically, and yet strangely likewise, is precisely who we would want to be if we were a ruthless global criminal: suave, literate, deadly; an "exceptional thief".
Events build up and up until we have a proper cat-and-mouse story. The odds are stacked against McClane: he's outnumbered, out-gunned, and out-shoed. But he's also a resilient fellow - a stubborn working man stuck in his ways - and he doesn't care much for foreign types trespassing on the ranch. For all the incredulity of many of our hero's actions, he is an everyman; forget juggernauts versus jet fighters - this incarnation of McClane huffs and puffs and bleeds. It HURTS jumping off a building, and he's modern enough to show it.
Along the way we meet some neatly written side characters, most of whom belong to the bumbling good guys. Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson (Paul Gleason) is scoping for promotion; journalist Richard Thornburg (the hilarious William Atherton, effectively reprising his role from Ghost Busters) sniffs a Pulitzer; and FBI agents Johnson and Johnson (Robert Davi and Grand L. Bush) just want to chew gum and get the job done with acceptable hostage losses.
McTiernan is a peerless action director when he's on form (see also Predator and Die Hard With a Vengeance), and this is his pinnacle, harking from the days when stunts meant stunts, not green-screen. Thumbs-up to cinematographer Jan de Bont, too, for proving that his best work is done on another director's leash. And Michael Kamen's score - foreboding and triumphant in equal measures - is so good it barely changed a note for three movies.
 Great film,boring extras what a waste of a disc. August 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The film redifined the action genre and made a star of Bruce Willis,a truely amazing action film that doesnt stop the unrelenting action.Sound and picture is awesome just what dvd`s were made for,but what happened to the extras ? The second disc is great if you like seeing deleted scene after deleted scene which get repetitve after a while,magazine articles,the film script and even your very own editing suite.Sorry i buy dvd special editions to find out how the film was made,not make my own.Im sure there must of been more material they could of used,all the actors are still alive,interview them because its a "special edition".The only featurette is a 5 minute one made at the time,a very dissapointing second disc that really isnt very special.
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