Die Hard With a Vengeance: One of the Best Bruce Willis Movies?

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Bruce Willis has been in the news a lot lately, with his tragic Aphasia diagnosis and then the ghoulish news that he told his likeness to a Deepfake company (which has since been debunked). In this episode of Revisited, we take a look back at one of his greatest action movies, the third Die Hard film, Die Hard With a Vengeance. While John McTiernan’s Die Hard is an unassailable classic (and Die Hard 2: Die Harder is pretty nifty, too), the third film, Die Hard With a Vengeance, is pretty damn close to being as good as the original. It helps that McTiernan returned to direct this kick-ass instalment, which takes the action to the streets of NYC and pairs Willis’ John McClane up with Samuel L. Jackson’s Zeus Carver.

While the choice to make the bad guy (played by Jeremy Irons) the other of Hans Gruber was a little silly, otherwise, this is pretty much a perfect action movie. In this episode of Revisited (written, narrated and edited by E.J. Tangonan), we dig into what makes it so good while also exploring a darker, alternative ending that would have potentially ended the series (for a time) on a dark note.