Superb action movies!
These are brilliant suspense / shoot 'em up films. Classic stuff, and while the first is the best by a wide margin, they're all worth owning. Great fun.

"COME FOR CHRISTMAS SHE SAID, A LITTLE EGGNOG SHE SAID ......" - WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME !
When Bruce Willis secured the role of John McClane in DieHard he was little more than a wisecracking TV comedian - star of the successful American show Moonlighting. A few minor lightweight film roles including Blind Date and The Return of Bruno had done little to extend his career any further than the small screen. For Willis life without Moonlighting wasn't looking great.
Then came DieHard. The role of officer John McClane, unwittingly caught up in a daring skyscraper set robbery, was the perfect fit. Violent, beautifully directed and full of jawdroppping stunts and mayhem. Willis wisecracked his way through the film and onto the Hollywood A list.
The first DieHard still remains one of the finest action films ever. The one man against overwhelming odds idea has been copied many times since (most successfully in Speed) but officer McClane still rules the action roost. Alan Rickman's brilliant performance as head bad guy Hans Gruber is the other reason why DieHard remains such a great film. Rickman chews the scenery and almost steals the entire movie. A classic.
Diehard 2 moved the action to an airport and upped the scale of destruction and greatly increased the body count. It's a fine film but lacks the punch and originality of it's predecessor. Willis still swaggers in the role though and there are some spectacular action sequences.
Die Hard With A Vegence teamed Office JM with Samuel L Jackson and turned the DieHard franchise into a buddy movie. Fortunately it's a great buddy movie and Jeromy Irons impresses as bad guy Simon Gruber. The violence is diluted somewhat and the comedy allowed to shine through slightly too much but the action is still breathtakingly good.
The final DieHard is better than the reviews and box office takings suggested. Willis plays McClane as grumpy old man and it works. The scene where he takes on a jet fighter single handed is so ridiculous it borders on genius.
As with all big film franchises the quality of the DieHard movies vary from classic to merely good, but they are never less than entertaining and Willis IS John McClane - dirty vest, bald head and shoeless.


Very Good Boxset!
One of the best series of films ever. With cansistantly good acting from Bruce Willis.
Die Hard *****
Die Hard 2: die harder ****
Die Hard: With a vengance ***
Die Hard 4.0 ****

Avoid this box set!
The films are without doubt some of the greatest action films ever made. The two stars is a reflection of the poor quality of this box set. The cover drawings are like those on a pirate copy. The transfer on 1 is very poor, giving a grainy picture throughout (not much better than my original video version!)DH3 has 12 minutes cut out of it compared to other versions! Some of this is in the fight scenes and is the worst cutting I have seen since the old UK versions of Bruce Lee's films. And the extras are virtually none existent.
All in all this is a rushed product, put out in time for Xmas. It does not compare favourably with other contemporary box sets e.g. Bladerunner - 5 discs, loads of extras, pictures etc and as such should be avoided!

diehard cut
the original boxset called trilogy should have been left as it is,and not releasing this cut to ribbons version of 4.0, the tin box version e.g.(ultimate action version)is uncut, with different lines put in.plus taking all the extras from the other discs off as made this the boxset to avoid badley drawn cover. basically if it aint broke dont try to remarket it as a cash in

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