1995 · action · thriller · heist
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Directed by John McTiernan2h 8m1995
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.
Our read: Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · heist entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
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