Hans Landa has compared the character to Sherlock Holmes, due to the meticulous, cerebral way Landa searches for Jews and traitors. Landa was also compared to "Die Hard" villain Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman, due to his disdain for the inferior intellect of those around him. Hans Landa Standartenführer Hans Landa is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film "Inglourious Basterds". He is portrayed by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz. For his performance, Waltz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Best Actor Award at
Die Hard (film series) 2007, "Entertainment Weekly" ranked "Die Hard" the greatest action film of all time. The first sequel, "Die Hard 2", received positive reviews, although not as many as the original. Despite only giving the original film two stars, critic Roger Ebert gave this film three and a half stars and called it "terrific entertainment." James Berardinelli called the film "somewhat-muddled but still entertaining." Peter Travers wrote that "however impressively made, "Die Hard 2" begins to wear thin." The third film, "Die Hard with a Vengeance", received mixed reviews. Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" stated that while "McTiernan stages individual sequences with