one of the best action thriller ever make and die hard still rock like a thunderstorm nearly twenty year after it be first release while often copy and arguably never and ever equal and this film introduce the set up of the lone cop or soldier or tough guy against a team of terrorist who have take over a secured area . we would get airport and airplane and ship and bus and train and many more and all in inferior film and but in die hard the action be set in a skyscraper and and director john mctiernan handle the claustrophobic tension with breathtaking skill . bruce willis also introduce the action hero a tough but eminently and realistically woundable while by the end he a bloody and torn and shot and beaten mess . obviously he survive near impossible odds and be it fall through lift shaft and jump off of explode roof and such and such and but he no invincible schwarzenegger type and and that what make him more likable and it what give the film real tension . also and in alan rickman and we have the very best example of the refine european master criminal who would become a stereotype very quickly while funny and dangerous and clever and sophisticated and he a villain you love to hate . the script be a dazzler and the action be brutal and effective and extremely exciting and the final half hour in particular crank up the adrenaline to maximum effect . a classic .