Die Hard with a Vengeance Review

Die Hard with a Vengeance


Release Date: 25th May 1995 - Australia


Production Companies
Cinergi Pictures Entertainment
20th Century Fox


Genre: Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 123 minutes


Budget: $90,000,000

Box Office Gross: $366,101,666 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
Now divorced, drunk and
unemployed after getting
fired for his reckless
behaviour and bad attitude.
Beleaguered New York
cop John McClane begins
to have the worst day of his
life when a cryptic terrorist
targets him, wreaking

havoc in downtown
Manhattan and then

threatens to blow up New

York City if McClane

doesn't play his game of

"Simon Says". With an

unwilling civilian partner

named Zeus Carver, McClane

careens from one end of the

city to another, struggling

to stay ahead of a lethal plot.

Cast
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver
Jeremy Irons - Simon
Graham Greene - Joe Lambert
Colleen Camp - Connie Kowalski
Larry Bryggman - Inspector
Walter Cobb
Anthony Peck - Ricky Walsh
Nick Wyman - Mathias Targo
Sam Phillips - Katya
Sharon Washington - Officer Jane
Stephen Pearlman - Dr. Fred Schiller
Michael Alexander Jackson - Dexter
Aldis Hodge - Raymond
Mischa Hausserman - Mischa
Robert Sedgwick - Rolf
Tony Halme - Roman
Bill Christ - Ivan
Greg A. Skoric - Kurt
Sven Toorvald - Karl
T. Alloy Langenfeld - Berndt
Timothy Adams - Felix Little
Gerrit Vooren - Nils
Willis Sparks - Klaus
Kevin Chamberlin - Charles Weiss
Richard E. Council - Otto
Joe Zaloom - Jerry Parks
Charles Dumas - FBI Agent Andy Cross
Michael Cristofer - Bill Jarvis, from

Another Organisation
Patricia Mauceri - Miss Thomas
Franchelle Stewart Dorn - Principal Martinez
Kharisma - Little Tina
Gerry Becker - Larry Griffith
Phil Theis - Erik

Crew
Producer/Director - John McTiernan
Certain Original Characters - Roderick Thorp
Writer - Jonathan Hensleigh
Executive Producers - Andrew G. Vajina,
Buzz Feitshans and Robert Lawrence
Producer/Unit Production Manager - Michael Tadross
Co-Producers - David Willis and
Carmine Zozzora

Technical Advisor - Randy Jurgensen
Production Designer - Jackson DeGovia

Art Directors - John R. Jensen and

Woods Mackintosh

Set Decorator - Leslie Bloom
Costume Designer - Joseph G. Aulisi
Director of Photography - Peter Menzies

Director of Photography: Second Unit -

Tom Priestley Jr.

"A" Camera Operators - Craig DiBona

and Robert Presley

Unit Production Managers - George Manasse

and John Stark
Second Unit Director/Stunt Coordinator -
Terry Leonard
Co-Stunt Coordinator - Terry Jackson

Special Effects Supervisors - Dick Cross

and William H. Schirmer
Special Effects Coordinators - Connie Brink

and Phil Cory
Visual Effects Supervisor/Director of

Photography: Mass Illusion - John E. Sullivan

Visual Effects Supervisor: SPI - Scott E. Anderson

Visual Effects Art Director - David B. Sharp
Computer Graphics Supervisor: SPI -

Ron Brinkmann

Effects Director of Photography: SPI -

David Drzewiecki
Digital Visual Effects Supervisor/Software

Designer: Mass Illusion - Serge Sretschinsky

Digital Effects Producer: Pacific Title

Digital - David Sosalla
Film Editor - John Wright

Sound Designer and Supervisor - Mark A. Mangini

Supervising Re-Recording Mixers - Bob Beemer

and Michael Minkler

Re-Recording Mixer - Daniel J. Leahy

Music - Michael Kamen

Music Supervisors - Eric Harryman

and Barry Levine

Review
DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE still has the action, but one thing for sure is the third movie was not nearly as good as the first instalment (click here). I'm glad this film sticks to a much different storyline than rehashing the formula. The plot seemed reminiscent of Lethal Weapon, probably because of the buddy dynamic. John McTiernan is back in the director's chair to unleash the mayhem with velocity and excitement. The action is louder, bigger and more explosive than the last, with sequences like the one involving a subway and the other in a ship, a bridge and a truck.

I liked Jeremy Irons' terrific performance as a terrorist, but his character was not as evil and walked in the shadow of Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber. I also praise Samuel L. Jackson, and he portrays a great sidekick to Bruce Willis' main hero. The difference between Jackson's character Zeus is that he is the complete opposite of Willis' John McClane.

A feature with a three-star cast like Willis, Jackson and Irons made DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE a fantastic film worthy of recognition as one of the great action films of the '90s. It has been a blast for action movie lovers.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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