Die Hard (Dir. John McTiernan, 1988): High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. But one man has managed to escape detection... an off-duty cop. He's alone... tired... and the only chance anyone has.
Bruce Willis stars as New York City Detective John McClane, newly arrived in Los Angeles to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged wife (
Bonnie Bedelia). But as McClane waits for his wife's office party to break-up, terrorists seize control the building. While the terrorist leader, Hans Gruber (
Alan Rickman) and his savage henchman (
Alexander Godunov) round up hostages, McClane slips away unnoticed. Armed with only a service revolver and his wits, McClane launches his own one-man war.
A cracking thriller from beginning to end,
Die Hard explodes with heartstopping suspense.
Die Hard 2 (Dir. Renny Harlin, 1990): On a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, a team of terrorists has seized a major international airport, and now holds thousands of holiday travelers hostage. The terrorists, a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rouge officer (
William Sadler), have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency, except one: John McClane, an off-duty cop seized by a feeling of deadly
déjà vu.
Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop who battles not only terrorists, but also an incompetent airport police chief (
Dennis Franz), the hard-headed commander (
John Amos) of the army's anti-terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. The runways are lettered with death and destruction, and McClane is in a race against time. His wife (
Bonnie Bedelia) is trapped on one of the planes circling somewhere overhead, desperately low on fuel.
It's all-out war, a heart-stopping, jet-propelled journey through excitement and terror. Fasten your seatbelts!