Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance (1995)

	Also Known As: Une Journée en Enfer (French)
	Year of first release: 1995
	Director: John McTiernan (Predator, Last Action Hero)
	Actors: Bruce Willis (Looper), Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers, The Man in the Iron Mask), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Deep Blue Sea)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 11.11.2013, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: After a bomb explodes in New York, John McClane (Willis) is asked to obey the responsible terrorist (Irons). He will be accompanied by Zeus (Jackson) who saved him during his first challenge.
Review: Not as excellent as I remembered, but I enjoyed this movie as much as Die Hard 2. It would have been too much to put McClane in the same situation for the third time, so what a great idea to make him be here on the request of the bad guy this time, a guy whose brother he killed in the first movie! What a great moment when you loved the first movies in the 80's, watch this one and hear the sentence "Peter Krieg was born Simon Peter Gruber. Hans Gruber was his brother". It is also original to see McClane not master of his fate in the first half of the movie, unlike we are used to see him: stubbornly upsetting the terrorists' plans. Indeed he is fighting a bad hangover, but we soon finds him back to his old self. Another excellent idea was to pair him with the character played by Samuel Jackson, which brought good comedy scenes. Finally it seems that in Die Hard 3 John McClane evolves from hero to anti-hero who is not anymore a straight cop fighting for justice. He looks a bit bored by going through all this for the third time...
Rating: 8 /10