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
Alan Rickman Jamie in "Truly, Madly, Deeply" (1991); numerous villains in Hollywood big-budget films, including German criminal Hans Gruber in "Die Hard" (1988), Australian Elliot Marston opposite Tom Selleck in "Quigley Down Under" (1990) and the Sheriff of Nottingham in "" (1991); and the occasional television role such as Dr. Alfred Blalock in HBO's "Something the Lord Made" (2004) and the "mad monk" Rasputin in the HBO biopic "" (1996), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. Rickman's role as Hans Gruber in "Die Hard" earned him a spot on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains