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Daily Mirror
09-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
‘Best masterpiece' action film of all time now streaming for free
The high-octane action film is still a classic An action movie from the golden era of nail-biting blockbusters has now arrived for audiences to stream after audiences watched another huge action film earlier this year. The movie came out in 1995 and became the high-grossing film of the year as viewers globally flocked to cinemas. Die Hard: With a Vengeance was the sequel to 1988 classic Die Hard and Die Hard 2 in 1990. The third movie in the franchise has often been hailed as a solid sequel in the action franchise. Die Hard: With a Vengeance once again followed NYPD detective John McClane (played by Bruce Willis), now a washed-up alcoholic divorcé, as he was forced into a twisted game of Simon Says with a psychotic terrorist detonating bombs around the Big Apple. READ MORE: Die Hard facts: 16 action-packed facts about everyone's favourite Christmas film McClane ended up partnering with shopkeeper Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) as they tried to stop the terrorist Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons) after learning of his plans to steal gold bullion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The movie remains a classic to this day with audience members on IMDb raving about it. One 10/10 review was titled: 'Die Hard With A Vengeance is not only a great movie, it is arguably the best masterpiece sequel of all time!' As a second review described the film as an 'Action comedy masterpiece' and the user commented: 'It's very rare for the first three films in a movie franchise to be consistently excellent, but that's the case with the DIE HARD series. The first one was an action movie masterpiece and hugely influential to this day. 'The second one is disliked by some, but I think it's very nearly the equal of the first, doing a tricky job of being the same but different at the same time. 'And the third is just a delight, an action comedy masterpiece that wreaks havoc throughout New York.' A third person titled their review: 'This Die Hard is the fastest moving of the trilogy' and explained: 'I like this one about as much as I like the first one. 'The first one had a better plot and was more tense, but this one moves at a very fast rate and it seems like it is over before it begins. 'A vast improvement over part two, this movie once again finds McClane in the middle of an emergency situation.' Someone else praised the film and said: 'The Best Installment In The Die Hard Trilogy.' They continued: 'Die Hard:With A Vengeance deserves to be ranked in a top ten list of action movies. The first two Die Hard movies were brilliant but this installment [sic] just blows the first two out of the water.' After Die Hard: With a Vengeance, it would be 12 years before the Hollywood legend Willis revisited the franchise with Live Free or Die Hard. There is a total of five films in the Die Hard franchise, with the final one A Good Day to Die Hard coming out in 2013.
Telegraph
21-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Heathrow crisis ‘is same as plot of Die Hard 2'
The Heathrow airport shutdown has similarities to the plot of Die Hard 2, according to social media users. The film, starring Bruce Willis as John McClane, revolves around a terrorist attack at Washington Dulles International airport. Col William Stuart, who is a former US Special Forces colonel, and his men cut all communications with incoming planes and disable all runway lights in an attempt to rescue a drug lord from being extradited to the United States. The move leaves planes circling the airport and running low on fuel, with Col Stuart's men deliberately forcing a British jet to crash land, killing everyone on board. However, following the substation fire near Heathrow, flights were diverted to airports across Europe rather than left circling the airport. At least 1,351 flights going to and from the airport are set to be affected by the closure, with up to 291,000 passengers thought to be affected. Counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation into the cause of the fire, with specialist detectives on site at the North Hyde electrical substation in Hayes, west London. The officers – also known as SO15 – will play a key role in trying to establish whether or not any hostile agents were involved in triggering the blaze. In Die Hard 2, McClane is forced to enlist the help of an airport cleaner to fight back against the terrorists and prevent a flight with his wife on board from crashing. One user on X said: 'Anybody else see the parallels between one sub station taking out Heathrow airport and the storyline in Die Hard 2 where one power cable took out the electricity to a whole airport? Where is John McClane today when you need him?' Another commented: 'No remote backup generators… What we can conclude is that no-one from Heathrow has ever seen Die Hard 2...' A third added: 'Sat here thinking did the infrastructure team at Heathrow not learn from Die Hard 2?!' In the film, McClane eventually defeats the terrorists and is reunited with his wife Holly after her plane lands safely on the runway guided by flames from McClane's previous battle. The disruption at Heathrow on Friday was also likened to the disruption caused to air traffic in the aftermath of the Sept 11 terror attacks. In a post on X this morning, Sir Keir Starmer said he was 'receiving regular updates' on the situation as he thanked emergency services. A Heathrow airport spokesman said the site will be 'safely able to begin some flights later [on Friday]'.
