Die Hard with a Vengeance act. And Jeremy Irons' villain isn't fit to tie Alan Rickman's shoelaces." In the "Crime Time Filmbook", which archives various UK film reviews, the film was given a 5/5 star review citing it as "...simply the best Action film of the decade, leaving imitators like "Bad Boys", "Executive Decision", "The Rock" and "Chain Reaction" in varying depths of shadow. "Die Hard with a Vengeance" was released on Laserdisc on January 17, 1996, on VHS on May 14, 1996, and on DVD on March 9, 1999. A special edition was released on DVD on July 10, 2001 and then re-released in
Die Hard (film series) "is the best in the series, an invigorating return to the style of blockbuster that dominated summers back in the early 1990s." "USA Today" film critic Claudia Puig said that the film "delivers when it comes to kick-butt, action-packed mayhem," but "as a convincing techno-thriller, it doesn't really work." The fifth film, "A Good Day to Die Hard", received mostly negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 14% based on 223 reviews, making it the worst-reviewed film of the series. Critics lambasted the installment for "[entering] generic action movie territory", as written by reviewer