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
Live Free or Die Hard telecommunications, financial, and utilities infrastructure systems. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the project was stalled, only to be resurrected several years later and rewritten into "Live Free or Die Hard" by Doug Richardson and eventually by Mark Bomback. Willis said in 2005 that the film would be called "Die Hard 4.0", as it revolves around computers and cyber-terrorism. IGN later reported the film was to be called "Die Hard: Reset" instead. 20th Century Fox later announced the title as "Live Free or Die Hard" and set a release date of June 29, 2007 with filming to begin in September