*His actions almost led to the terrorists/robbers plan succeeding. John did nothing to stop the actual robbery, nor was he able to free the hostages. At best, he alerted the authorities and trimmed down the number of terrorists. However he also didn’t do anything that might have prevented the terrorists from destroying the building as they had planned.
Ok, so you're trying to do to Die Hard what the Big Bang Theory tried to do with Raiders of the Lost Ark. Well it works even less with this movie as it does with that one. So off the top of my head, here are the things John McClane did that help beat the terrorist.
*He did all the police immediately. The 911 operator didn't believe him and reluctantly sent one car. John had to shot at that car in order to convince them that something was happening. If not for the ineptitude of the police and predictability of the FBI, this could have ended Hans plot before it even started.
* He continued to take out terrorist throughout the night.
* He stole the triggers for the explosives, and yes Han was able to get them back, his desperation tipped off John that there were more explosives in the building.
*He was the only one to figure out that the helicopter of the roof was a trap and all the hostages and some of the terrorist were going to be killed in an explosion. He single handedly got everyone off the roof and narrowly escaped himself.
*He then finishes off the last of the terrorist, including Han and prevents them from escaping in the ambulance.
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What are the most unrealistic parts of the Die Hard script?
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-unrealistic-parts-of-the-Die-Hard-script/answer/Jon-Mixon-1
1. Nakatomi was a major corporation that decided to have an onsite Christmas party in the late 1980s - Besides being cheap, it’s also ill-advised to have alcohol in a workplace. Additionally, for reasons that aren’t clear the party wasn’t in a conference room, but in what appears to be the main work area of the firm.
2. All of the security in the building were on the ground floor of the building - When you are in security in a building like that you have to make rounds throughout the building to ensure that you are indeed “securing” it. There shoudl have been more than the guards in the lobby and the ones elsewhere in the building would have called the authorities when they realized that something was wrong.
3. Al (Reginald VelJohnson) wasn’t surprised that there was only a single security guard in the lobby or at the location. - Granted it was during the holidays; However there really should have been more than a single guard in the lobby, even in the 1980s for a building that size. Additionally the guard (secretly a terrorist) didn’t seem to be too concerned that a police officer was called out to the building and that lack of concern would have made a competent police officer quite suspicious.
4. The police attempted to storm the building despite the fact that the hostages were in the penthouse office suites, thirty floors up - Borrowing a line from The Godfather novel “Elevators are death traps” so they wouldn’t have used them. That meant climbing thirty flights of stairs and then planning to engage in a gun battle with an unknown number of opponents. To presume that things would have gone badly, understates things significantly.
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https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-unrealistic-parts-of-the-Die-Hard-script/answer/Jon-Mixon-1
5. The underground parking garage was empty - It’s Los Angeles, not NYC so the people who worked there drove to work. Where did they park their cars? Additionally, parking garages are rarely attached to loading docks for a host of reasons, most having to do with accidents, so the terrorists would have had to park outside at an actual loading dock.
The terrorist KNEW that the bearer bonds were in the vault - The bonds hadn’t been moved, or were never actually there; the film makes it clear that Hans Gruber (the leader of the terrorists) knew that what he was seeking was indeed on the site. That could only mean that there was an insider involved, but the film never points out who that might have been.
6. The robbery itself - It would have been far easier to have taken out the guards and loot the vault AFTER everybody left the building. In fact, they would have had hours to do so before a morning crew got in, they would have needed fewer people, and they could have simply walked out an exit door when they were finished with the bearer bonds in a backpack or a valise. They actually undertook a plan that had limited chances of being successful even if McClane (the film’s protagonist) had not been present , nor interfered.
7. The vault job - Basically the film seems to have been written by someone who doesn’t understand physics. The vault in question has an electromagnetic lock. Electromagnets only work when electricity powers them. If you cut the current, you cut the magnetism. And you have one or more circuit breakers between the safe and the main power system. Simply dropping a switch, tripping a circuit breaker, or pulling some fuses would prevented the safe from locking and then cut hours from the time needed to commit the robbery.
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