Die Hard Collection (Die Hard/ Die Hard 2: Die Harder/ Die Hard with a Vengeance/ Live Free or Die Hard) [Blu-ray]
Directed by Renny Harlin
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Disc 1: DIE HARD BLU-RAY Disc 2: DIE HARDER BLU-RAY Disc 3: DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE BLU-RAY Disc 4: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD BLU-RAYProduct Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7 in DVD
- Brand: Fox
- Released on: 2007-11-20
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
- Formats: Box set, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound
- Original language: English, French, Spanish
- Number of discs: 4
- Dimensions: 1.20 pounds
- Running time: 494 minutes
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Die Hard is the movie franchise that made a movie star out of TV
star Bruce Willis, and created an entire action-movie genre of its own.
In the original 1988 film, Willis plays wisecracking New York cop John
McClane, who arrives at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles to meet up
with his estranged wife, Holly (Bonny Bedelia), at her office Christmas
party. As luck would have it, the company ends up in the middle of a
terrorist plot led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and his gang of expert
killers, and with little help coming from outside, McClane has to pick
off his enemies one by one. Thus was born the "Die Hard genre,"
epitomized by such films as Under Siege ("Die Hard on a
ship"), Passenger 57 ("Die Hard on a plane"), Speed
("Die Hard on a bus"), and Cliffhanger ("Die Hard
on a mountain"). But few measure up to the explosive brilliance of Die
Hard. Director John McTiernan develops the action at a fast and
furious pace, culminating in some fantastic set-pieces on the top of the
building, in the elevator shaft, and in the building's outer plaza. Jeb
Stuart and Steven E. de Souza's script, based on Roderick Thorp's novel
Nothing Lasts Forever, is smart, funny, and full of memorable
lines (among them "Welcome to the party, pal!" and of course "Yippee
ki-ay, motherf*****"), and the cast is perfection, especially Rickman as
the cunningly evil villain, and Willis, whose McClane
character--bloodied, beaten, bruised, and barely breathing, as he
battles both bad guys and bureaucrats--is someone audiences could
genuinely cheer for.
Directed by Renny Harlin, the 1990 sequel,
Die Hard 2 (unofficially referred to as Die Harder), doesn't
match the level of the original, but it's still an exciting thrill ride
with some terrific action sequences. One year after the Nakatomi
incident, McClane (Willis) is awaiting his wife's (Bedelia) plane to
arrive at Dulles Airport when he stumbles onto a plot to paralyze the
entire airport, including all the planes trying to land. It's up to
McClane to take on the cadre of bad guys despite all the bureaucrats
standing in his way, and before the planes run out of fuel and crash to
the ground. The cast includes William Sadler as rogue military man Col.
Stuart, Dennis Franz as the latest bureaucratic cop to get in McClane's
way, Richard Thornburg as the annoying reporter from the original movie,
John Amos as a special-forces commander, early-in-their-career John
Leguizamo and Robert Patrick as terrorists, and future politician and Law
and Order actor Fred Thompson as the head of air traffic control.
The third film in the series, Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995),
was again directed by John McTiernan and uses a different concept. The
villain (played by Jeremy Irons) claims to have planted bombs all over
New York City and gives John McClane (Willis), now alchoholic and
separated, a series of clues to try to track them down. Along the way,
he's aided by, and eventually teams up with, a Harlem shopkeeper named
Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson). The interplay between Willis and
Jackson is engaging, but better suited to the Lethal Weapon
franchise it was previously considered for, and not till the end does
the movie return to the familiar McClane-vs.-villains-showdown format.
Twelve years after Die Hard with a Vengeance, the third and
previous film in the Die Hard franchise, Live Free or Die Hard
finds John McClane (Bruce Willis) a few years older, not any happier,
and just as kick-ass as ever. Right after he has a fight with his
college-age daughter (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a call comes in to pick
up a hacker (Justin Long, a.k.a. the "Apple guy") who might help the FBI
learn something about a brief security blip in their systems. Now any Die
Hard fan knows that this is when the assassins with foreign accents
and high-powered weaponry show up, telling McClane that once again he's
stumbled into an assignment that's anything but routine. Once that
wreckage has cleared, it is revealed that the hacker is only one of many
hackers who are being targeted for extermination after they helped set
up a "fire sale," a three-pronged cyberattack designed to bring down the
entire country by crippling its transportation, finances, and
utilities. That plan is now being put into action by a mysterious team
(Timothy Olyphant, Deadwood, and Maggie Q, Mission: Impossible
3) that seems to be operating under the government's noses.
Live Free or Die Hard uses some of the cat-and-mouse elements of
Die Hard with a Vengeance along with some of the
pick-'em-off-one-by-one elements of the now-classic original movie. And
it's the most consistently enjoyable installment of the franchise since
the original, with eye-popping stunts (directed by Len Wiseman of the Underworld
franchise), good humor, and Willis's ability to toss off a quip while
barely alive. There was some controversy over the film's PG-13
rating--there might be less blood than usual, and McClane's famous tag
line is somewhat obscured--but there's still has plenty of action and a
high body count. Yippee-ki-ay! --David Horiuchi
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