Die Hard details
| Formats: | 18 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Alan Rickman, Robert Davi, Bruce Willis, Paul Gleason, Alexander Godunov, William Atherton, Robert D, James Shigeta, Hart Bochner, Bonnie Bedelia |
| Director: | John McTiernan |
| Genres: | Action/Adventure - Crime, Thriller - Crime, Drama, General |
| Studio: | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Collections: | 100 Cops & Robbers, 100 Eighties Greats, 100 must-see movies, 100 Top Thrillers, Cops & Robbers, Top 10 Christmas films |
| Name | Discs | |
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Die Hard |
18 Feature | |
Die Hard - Bonus Disc |
18 Bonus |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 7 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 01 Dec 2001 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Subtitles: | Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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Awesome action flick
By Dallas from The Nostromo , 25 Jan 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
Classic.
Die Hard is one of those seminal action movies that everyone remembers, whether they actually like it or not. That in itself is some achievement given how many of these types of films are released.
Bruce Willis stars as John McClane, a New York cop whose estranged wife invites him to Los Angeles for Christmas, where he is to meet her at her offices, in the dazzling Nakatomi building.
Unfortunately terrorists, led by the stylish Hans Gruber (brilliantly played by Alan Rickman), take control of the building and demand the access codes to the vault below.
Escaping the initial takeover, it is up to McClane, with radio assistance from a deskbound cop who just happened to be passing by, to stop the terrorists from stealing the money and killing everyone held hostage.
Wisecracking galore, classic action set pieces and a relentless pace from Director John McTiernan (who later made Predator), added to a first class performance from all the cast, make this film by far and way a top five action film classic.
The print on this R2 disc is a little soft in places, but the remixed Dolby 5.1 mix really kicks in hard during the numerous gunfights and explosions.
Die Hard 2: Die Harder was a similarly plotted sequel that actually stands comparison with Die Hard and is well worth your time also - unfortunately the same can't be said for Die Hard with a Vengeance, which followed years later.
There are talks afoot to do Die Hard 4 apparently, with Willis returning as McClane, and Britney Spears of all people playing his teenage daughter!! Doesn't sound promising does it? Still, perhaps she'll get her tits out for the boys - her music career could certainly do with the publicity!!- Was this review helpful to you?
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(99)you haven't lived until you've seen Die Hard
By a customer , 30 Mar 2013Don't mean to big it up too much, but I absolutely adore this film. Action-packed, funny and simply awesome. Bruce Willis's character of John Mclane is marvellous, along with Alan Rickman as the brilliant villain. Absolute classic.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Die hard very boring
By funentertainment (44 reviews) , 18 Feb 2013Die hard is an suspence film but fails as we have seen better before the actings witty and annoying and all bruce willis does is run throo a building if i was you i wouldn not watch .- Was this review helpful to you?
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Didn't die - unfortunately
By blackpolekev (197 reviews) from blackpole , 16 Feb 2013One of the most overrated films of all time is actually very tedious. If you like watching endless numbers of shoot-outs & explosions and banal dialogue you will love this; you will like Battleship as well, which has even more explosions and is marginally less annoying. However if your brain prefers something a bit more taxing you will be bored in no time. It could have been so much better: John McClane should have been killed by the terrorists, which of course in real life he would have. If only he had died (hard or soft, I don't care - I just wanted him to die) in the first few minutes it would have saved this viewer from nearly 2 hours of garbage. But he didn't die - unfortunately.
Format: Cinema - 35mm film; Dolby stereo sound- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good Movie Bad Transfer
By TheSpecialist (7 reviews) from Birmingham , 07 Sep 2012[Highly rated reviewer]
A great Action Movie . One Of the Classics. But the Blu ray is a let down. Movie 4. 5 stars but the transfer 1 star. The picture is no different to the DVD version. Sound is ok. Best to rent then buy . Unless they release a new remastered version.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A classic!
By iuli2a (42 reviews) from Bristol , 29 Mar 2012Come Xmass time and I must watch this movie or Xmass won't be Xmass without it!
Bruce Willis it the cool, resourceful off duty and off city cop that find himself in the right place but at the wrong time, dealing with psycho Hans (or something like that) who has some serious issues and is taking it out on a big boss of a Japanese firm.
Guns and baubles all around!- Was this review helpful to you?
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