Critic Reviews
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ReelViews
Not only is it a thrill-a-minute ride, but it has one of the best film villains in recent memory, a hero everyone can relate to, dialogue that crackles with wit, and a lot of very impressive pyrotechnics.
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| 100 |
Mr. Showbiz
Carmel Dagan
This brash, clever picture caught the attention of audiences after years of moribund product from the likes of Schwarzenegger and Stallone.
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| 88 |
USA Today
The result is a foot-stomping rouser. Where else can you get a cop in his underwear boogalooing with skyscraper terrorists? [15 July 1988, Life, p.4D]
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| 80 |
Washington Post
A firepowered, blood-drenched action picture that doesn't let up.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Slick, glossy, overblown, implausible. [15 July 1988, Daily Notebook, p.E1]
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
Has everything but a personality. [15 July 1988, Friday, p.A]
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| 70 |
The New York Times
Caryn James
Has to be the most excessive film around. It piles every known element of the action genre onto the flimsy story. [15 July 1988]
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| 70 |
Variety
Staff (Not credited)
As high tech, rock hard and souped up as an action film can be.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
A logistical wonder, a marvel of engineering, and relentlessly, mercilessly thrilling.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Staff (not credited)
A triumph of slick direction and lowbrow thrills, marred but not spoiled by a sour aftertaste.
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| 60 |
Los Angeles Times
As a grand flourish of cinematic technique, it is awesome; as a human drama, it is disgusting and silly, a mindless depiction of carnage on an epic scale. [15 July 1988, Calendar, p.6-1]
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| 50 |
Time
What Willis proves in Die Hard is that it is not one you can ease through, especially if your preparation runs more to body building than to character building. [July 25, 1988]
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
On a technical level, there's a lot to be said for Die Hard. It's when we get to some of the unnecessary adornments of the script that the movie shoots itself in the foot.
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