Die Hard Critic Reviews
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Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.Read the full review
The result is a foot-stomping rouser. Where else can you get a cop in his underwear boogalooing with skyscraper terrorists? [15 July 1988, Life, p.4D]Read the full review
A firepowered, blood-drenched action picture that doesn't let up.Read the full review
Slick, glossy, overblown, implausible. [15 July 1988, Daily Notebook, p.E1]Read the full review
A logistical wonder, a marvel of engineering, and relentlessly, mercilessly thrilling.Read the full review
Has to be the most excessive film around. It piles every known element of the action genre onto the flimsy story. [15 July 1988]Read the full review
As high tech, rock hard and souped up as an action film can be.Read the full review
As a grand flourish of cinematic technique, it is awesome; as a human drama, it is disgusting and silly, a mindless depiction of carnage on an epic scale. [15 July 1988, Calendar, p.6-1]Read the full review
On a technical level, there's a lot to be said for Die Hard. It's when we get to some of the unnecessary adornments of the script that the movie shoots itself in the foot.Read the full review
