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: Vendetta refreshing his skills in a training exercise, McClane goes home to watch the unveiling of a painting that was recovered from an expedition in South America by Piet Gruber (the son of Hans Gruber, the main villain from the first "Die Hard" film). As the unveiling begins, Lucy (McClane's daughter, now a police officer) witnesses robbers attempting to leave with artwork and gunfire erupts, panicking the crowd. McClane rushes to the Townsend Museum to rescue his daughter. Once there, McClane is notified that the robbers have sealed themselves in and taken hostages, including Lucy. McClane enters the museum and begins