Die Hard
Directed by John McTiernan
High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got. From TMDB
462 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 57 | 9 | 336 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 45 |
| TMDB reviews * | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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What viewers are saying
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Viewers praise Die Hard as a definitive action film that revolutionized the genre. [1][2][3] Many debate whether it qualifies as a Christmas movie. [4][5][6] Alan Rickman's performance as Hans Gruber is widely celebrated. [2][7][8]
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One seized tower block, one sweaty vest and one big set of action cojones. Based on ex cop Roderick Thorpe's 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever, Die Hard, directed by John McTiernan, changed the face of the action movie. Starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald Veljohnson, Alexander Godunov, William Atherton & Paul Gleason, McTiernan's movie went on to make over $100 million in profit at the box …
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This is one of the definitive 80s Action Films. There is no nonsense whatsoever, the plot moves along with such a pace that the viewer is not disturbed by implausabilities. Bruce Willis plays the likeable "regular guy", who is forced bare-foot into unleashing mayhem and destruction, to perfection. His brilliant opposite is Alan Rickman, playing the German villain Hans Gruber in such a way that you almost root for …
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Die Hard's fresh take on action heroes, excellent directing and pacing, and explosive effects make it a near-perfect action film and one of the finest of the genre. Die Hard revolutionized the action genre by rejecting the muscle-bound action tropes of its predecessors and introducing a relatable fast-talking hero masterfully portrayed by Bruce Willis. Willis' John McClane receives more sympathy from the audience …
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Just watched this inexplicably for the first time, after having seen and adoring its first two sequels. As a teenager when this hit theatres, I never really felt the urge or inclination to see this at the time. Action films weren't big for me back then. Now as a father of a teenager myself, it's interesting seeing what's now considered 'a classic' for the first time. This easily deserves its lofty status as one of …
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Die Hard (1988) is one of those action movies that just gets everything right. The plot is simple but brilliantly executed, keeping the tension high from start to finish. It does not waste time with unnecessary filler, making every moment count. John McClane is a great protagonist, not because he is an unstoppable action hero but because he is resourceful, vulnerable, and constantly thinking on his feet. The script …
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Critics, per Wikipedia
Initial critical reviews of Die Hard were mixed. Audiences reacted more positively; polls by the market research firm CinemaScore found that audiences gave it a rare average rating of "A+" on an A+ to F scale. McTiernan's direction was praised. In the Chicago Tribune, Dave Kehr wrote that McTiernan's "logical" direction created a sense of scale in the film that made it seem more significant than its content. The scene in which the terrorists take over the building was described as a "textbook study" by Kevin Thomas, providing a strong introduction to both McTiernan's abilities and De Bont's cinematography. De Govia's set design was complimented by Kehr as "ingenious". Ebert praised the…
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60 of 462 · most liked firstAnnual reminder: Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders. Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie because of the setting. It's a Christmas movie because it has The Christmas Plot: A man who is neglecting his family to focus on work learns What Really Matters through an improbable crisis around the holidays and rededicates himself to his wife and kids
neutral · AI labelView post →you (plebeian, unrefined): Die Hard is a Christmas movie me (worldly, sophisticated): Die Hard is a Christmas film
neutral · AI labelView post →The late great ALAN RICKMAN making his movie debut aged 42 in DIE HARD (1988)
neutral · AI labelView post →Here is a test for the civility on BlueSky: A movie cannot be a Christmas movie unless Christmas plays a central mechanism in the transition of the narrative from A to B. So Die Hard is clearly NOT a Christmas movie because Christmas changes nothing in the story.
neutral · AI labelView post →OK, which "Christmas movie" are you folks MOST looking forward to watching today? I'm cranking up "Die Hard" as we speak.
positive · AI labelView post →If Die Hard counts as a Christmas movie...Jaws can be an official 4th of July movie. 🫣😅
neutral · AI labelView post →die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →The thing about the “Die Hard is a Christmas movie” cliche is that everyone should be watching Die Hard all the time all around the year
positive · AI labelView post →There are classic Christmas movies, such as Krampus, Die Hard & Elf, but they say there isn’t a true 4th of July movie. I beg to differ . . .
neutral · AI labelView post →Putting my mischief hat on and telling people that they are not gonna believe what my favorite Christmas movie is. It’s Die Hard
positive · AI labelView post →My wife saw Die Hard for the first time tonight. She agrees that it is indeed a Christmas movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Some guy: Die Hard is a CHRISTMAS MOVIE Everyone: Yeah Guy: A CHRISTMAS MOVIE Everyone: We all said we agreed Guy: IT TAKES PLACE DURING CHRISTMAS TIME
neutral · AI labelView post →Just a reminder, Die Hard 2 is *also* a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Everyone keeps asking if Die Hard is a Christmas movie while I'm wondering if Christmas is about to become a Die Hard movie
neutral · AI labelView post →die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Came in to my mother watching Die Hard “It’s a Christmas movie” she says
neutral · AI labelView post →A lot of people don’t realize that Die Hard was originally a pagan movie
neutral · AI labelView post →As those who celebrate Christmas mark the season by watching the movie Die Hard, I wonder: Isn’t Die Hard also a Hanukkah movie, celebrating a small and brave band fighting for freedom against overwhelming odds? There’s one obvious indication: John McClane = JM= Judah Maccabee. 🤷♂️
neutral · AI labelView post →If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, then Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a Die Hard movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I know "Die Hard" is y'all's favorite Christmas movie but there's another film that has a lot of elements of "Die Hard" PLUS a much more involved Christmas message and musings on the "invisibility" of homelessness. This Christmas, check out "Tokyo Godfathers." www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainmen...
neutral · AI labelView post →“Die Hard” is a film about an American man who, unable to sustain his marriage or any other kind of positive human relationship, takes out his frustrations on a group of men who epitomise everything he is not by being well dressed, comfortable in their sexuality and happy to be with one another.
negative · AI labelView post →in the new prequel Die Hard: John McClane's Bitter Divorce filmmaker Jim Jarmusch delivers a stirring eight hour rendition of the McClane couple's lawyers hashing out a binding custody plan. the entire film is one unbroken shot of a conference table in a law office!
neutral · AI labelView post →No, Die Hard is not a Christmas movie.
negative · AI labelView post →Die Hard IS a Christmas movie 🎄 🎅 #DieHard
positive · AI labelView post →A quite frankly fabulous alt-movie poster for 1988’s “Die Hard” by Chris Weston.
neutral · AI labelView post →Love Actually is a Die Hard movie
neutral · AI labelView post →I think we can settle this once and for all. Die Hard is a movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Thoughts on Die Hard while watching for the zillionth time: I hope I am alive when it shows up on the Sight & Sound list Bonnie Bedelia’s generous and real performance is the key to why this film works and she should have been nominated for an oscar for it
positive · AI labelView post →tired: you should watch Die Hard because it's a Christmas movie wired: you should watch Die Hard because it is a perfect action movie
positive · AI labelView post →Die Hard is a diamond of a film. I couldn't write something that tight in a million years. It also would not occur to me to shoot air ducts and cubicle farms with anamorphic lenses like some kind of crazed lens-flare wizard, but that's why I'm not Jan de Bont
positive · AI labelView post →Is DIE HARD a Christmas movie? Well, I know *someone* who died hard, and his name is Jesus
neutral · AI labelView post →Die Hard is a Christmas movie because it was the baby Jesus' favourite movie when he was growing up
neutral · AI labelView post →Wait so Die Hard isn’t a movie about overdosing on Viagra?
neutral · AI labelView post →Die Hard is my favorite Christmas movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Tired: Die Hard is a Christmas movie Wired: Ratatouille is a mecha anime
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m sorry but Die Hard/Christmas film is as tedious as pineapple on pizza. Very bored.
negative · AI labelView post →Yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie: “Die Hard” (1988), directed by John McTiernan
neutral · AI labelView post →Forget Die Hard. Here’s the real holiday film debate: Is “Catch Me If You Can” a Christmas movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →BROKE: Die Hard is a Christmas movie WOKE: Addams Family Values is a Thanksgiving movie BESPOKE:
neutral · AI labelView post →My favorite Christmas movie is Die Hard, my favorite Passover movie is Dayenu Hard, and my favorite Easter movie is Dye Hard-Boiled Eggs.
positive · AI labelView post →What is your favourite Christmas film? Love Actually? Home Alone? Or something else? To me, the ultimate Christmas film has to be Die Hard (slightly ironic I guess, as the film hardly captures the spirit of Christmas). Die Hard has simply become a movie we watch during every Winter holiday :)
positive · AI labelView post →TIRED: DIE HARD is a Christmas movie WIRED: The INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS soundtrack is a Christmas album
neutral · AI labelView post →Die Hard is most likely not a Christmas movie, as most historians believe the film took place during the Spring and was moved to December by early Christians in order to co-opt pagan action films.
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminder that Die Hard is a Christmas film because it's about a guy who reconnects with his family and who's actions restore hope and faith into a guy who lost his spirit all while defeating a guy motivated only by greed
positive · AI labelView post →What is your favorite movie debut from an actor or actress? For me… Alan Rickman in ‘Die Hard’ 🖤
positive · AI labelView post →If Die Hard is a Christmas movie than so is Miracle on 34th Street!! 😡
negative · AI labelView post →Yall. Let's just get this settled before the holidays. Die Hard was not a movie. It really happened.
neutral · AI labelView post →Industrial Light & Magic ‘matte artist’ — Yusei Uesugi — painting the final runway scene for DIE HARD 2 (1990) which (with some pioneering digital manipulation) created that iconic final shot in the movie, which otherwise would’ve cost $250,000 to hire the planes alone!
neutral · AI labelView post →Absolutely incredible film. Antifa old ladies vs Nazi invaders, Die Hard by way of Enid Blyton, made and released while the war was still going on. (first recommended to me by Mr Alan Moore himself, should you need a more compelling endorsement)
positive · AI labelView post →Tis the season. Time to break out the advent calendar. Yippee ki yay Hans Gruber! In some sort of Dredd slo-mo/Die Hard mash up, it's going to take him 24 days to meet his destiny. Not going to get into the 'Die Hard, Xmas movie or not' debate...which it totally is.
positive · AI labelView post →Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, it is a Fantasy film about an imaginary world where an LAPD cop needs to be convinced to shoot someone.
negative · AI labelView post →Die Hard is a Christmas Movie.
positive · AI labelView post →it is so good, in fact, that it is an entire movie genre in and of itself The Raid: a Die Hard movie Dredd: also a Die Hard movie think of an action movie that involved fighting your way up or down a building, that's a Die Hard movie and all of them are great
positive · AI labelView post →Teasing the Ode to Joy all film long then finally hitting it as hard as possible amid rainbows of low-angled lens flare when the *bad guys* triumph is one of the coolest things any action movie has ever done. Die Hard!
positive · AI labelView post →Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Agree? 🙋♀️
neutral · AI labelView post →Broke: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie, it’s an action film Woke: Die Hard is set at Christmas. Christmas film Bespoke: Die Hard is about death, judgement, and deliverance from evil (and people anticipating the celebration of Christmas with an office party) and is therefore clearly an Advent movie
neutral · AI labelView post →"Die Hard is a Christmas movie" Die Hard is a nostalgic allegory in which the mythical values of the American frontier triumph over technofuturist global capitalism. Grow up
positive · AI labelView post →Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Just making sure my vote is counted.
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