Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

Nakatomi Plaza: The Real VictimWe never thought we'd feel sorry for a building, but boy do our hearts go out to poor Nakatomi Plaza. Over the course of the movie, the building gets blown up—twice...

Clocking in at two hours and twelve minutes, Die Hard has quite a bit of story to tell. But the crazy thing is, most of the story happens in real time, with merely a few hours passing between John...

ActionHow can we put this clearly? Die Hard is probably the most important action movie of the late 20th-century. We're not exaggerating either. Its influence on the genre is visible everywhere, it...

We've got a question for you. Who dies harder: John McClane or Karl? We're inclined to say Karl, simply because we had so written him off for dead when John leaves him dangling by the neck from a c...

Happy Trails, HansDie Hard ends as it must: with Hans and McClane finally facing off, ready to put these shenanigans to bed, once and for all. Of course it couldn't possibly be as easy as all that....

RHmm. Let's see:Lots of F-bombs. At least 50, we'd say.A brief moment of female nudity.Bloody violence.More bloody violence. And then some. Yeah, we'd say that earns it an R.