The Die Hard Series
Die Hard movies are a great piece of film history. That is probably where they need to stay, though, instead of having updated versions coming out years after what was thought of as the last one in the series. It is probably time for John McClain to be retired. Let Bruce Willis keep doing action movies, but this franchise has already seen its glory days.
The first pits a single cop, John McClain, against a group of terrorists/robbers. The main bad guy, played by a very stylish Alan Rickman, is the perfect example of the over the top, pure evil bad guy that we like to see fall out of a window at the end of the movie. What is great is that even though John has to fight everyone on his own, he spends the whole movie trying to get anyone else to come and help him. This gives the movie a sense of realism, as well as telling us that John doesn’t think he can really take out everyone on his own, even though that is what ends up happening, though it does happen largely through luck.
The second movie gets a little more outlandish. John happens to be at the site of another terrorists/robbery scheme and happens to be the one that is able to stop them before anything truly bad happens. He is a little more gung ho in this movie, but he still tries to get as much help as possible from anyone else who is around.
The third movie does a good job of being really over the top. There is a lot that is happening in the movie, and John is caught in the middle, although this time because the bad guy calls him out personally. Still, the movie is a good balance of humor and action and wasn’t so over the top on action as to be ridiculous.
But the forth movie ends up having an entire nation at siege. And it doesn’t make a lot of sense how that happens. What makes less sense is that this cop from New York suddenly seems to have super powers. Yes, he seemed nearly indestructible in the first three movies, but now he is able to jump out of a moving car that he has just turned into a rocket to destroy a helicopter and get up and walk away.
These types of movies work better when they are done on a bit smaller scale. They need to be done smaller. This isn’t a super hero we are dealing with, this is an aging cop. John can’t do everything, and the audience should know this. Regardless of how much people want to root for him, it is hard when he has become some sort of superman instead of just being a tough New York cop.
This is a great franchise, but it was a product of its time. Films have grown too much since the first one was made. Action movies are a lot bigger these days, thanks to the bigger budgets and the advent of better special effects. Die Hard movies were big action movies for their time, but their time has passed.
Die Hard movies are never going to go away. People will still want to watch them for many years to come. There just comes a time when a new one can’t do justice to the franchise anymore. John McClain needs to retire and Bruce Willis can do other outlandish action movies in its place, and that way everyone will be happy.
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