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re: #56 teleskiguy
The third Die Hard is the best Die Hard.
Die Hard 1-3 are all pretty good action flicks, all for different reasons.
Die Hard: Willis vs. Rickman, hell yeah! Plus, solid performances from the supporting cast, especially Reginald VelJohnson (post-Crocodile Dundee, but before Family Matters) and the always smarmy, arrogant, easy-to-hate William Atherton.
Die Hard 2: Interesting plot, but lacks the really strong big bad of the 1st and 3rd movies (well, it is definitely hard to follow up Alan Rickman, but Jeremy Irons was able to do so in DHwaV); however, the supporting cast was good (Atherton’s smarmy, arrogant asshole reporter and VelJohnson’s Sgt. Al Powell returns and are supplemented by, among others, Dennis Franz and the late Fred Thompson), with some surprises (John Amos and John Leguizamo, who almost always plays good guys, are part of the bad guy team here).
Die Hard with a Vengeance: Willis, Irons, and Jackson…definitely as good, if not better in some ways, as the original. As I opined above, Irons definitely brought his A-game as the big bad, a worthy successor to Rickman’s Hans Gruber.
