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Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance (1995)

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Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 6

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Bruce Willis returns as misfit cop John McClane in the third film in the Die Hard series. McClane has fallen on hard times; after moving to New York City and breaking up with his wife, he's developed a drinking problem and has been suspended from the NYPD. However, his past comes back to haunt him in the form of Simon (Jeremy Irons), a terrorist bomber who has been using McClane as his contact as he plants a series of bombs in public places and gives McClane inane "clues" to their whereabouts in

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Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure

Jonathan Hensleigh

Mar 9, 1999

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

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Critic Reviews for Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance

All Critics (49) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (23) | DVD (23)

Degenerates into an improbable, confusing series of chases and an overly involved heist that takes far too long to set up.

June 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment (1)
Brian Lowry
Variety
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There's little wit or originality on offer, just the familiar escalation of car chases and big bangs.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
Time Out
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Pure action, with bigger and better explosions and stunts.

August 30, 2004 Full Review Source: New York Times
Caryn James
New York Times
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It's a tense, terrifically funny action dazzler with a wow level in special effects that will be hard to top.

May 12, 2001
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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The big set pieces don't build, really, they just pile up.

February 21, 2001 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times
Peter Rainer
Los Angeles Times
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An audience on the edge of its seat doesn't quibble about plot points.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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... Highlighted by Irons, whose slick and sinister Simon is second only to Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber in the pantheon of "Die Hard" villains.

February 12, 2013 Full Review Source: Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

Though still a far cry from the peerless original, Die Hard With A Vengeance is a big improvement over the second.

February 2, 2013 Full Review Source: Flix Capacitor
Stephen Carty
Flix Capacitor

If you ignore the last half, it's quite a good entry.

August 16, 2012 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Less hand-to-hand combat, but still a very violent sequel.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Kelly Kessler
Common Sense Media

...ultimately closer in spirit to the original than the first sequel.

June 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

Should make us all feel a little queasy after the Oklahoma City bombing.

June 25, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Although the film is not special, this two-disc special edition DVD most definitely is.

June 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Ryan Cracknell
Apollo Guide

All in all, it's a fun movie, worthy of its predecessors, but ranking third of three.

August 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

So concerned with bigness that it forgets to thrill.

April 26, 2004
Mark Robison
Reno Gazette-Journal Source: Reno Gazette-Journal

Surprisingly more entertaining than you'd expect a third film in a franchise to be.

January 30, 2004
Widgett Walls
Needcoffee.com

John McTiernan pulls the stunts off with such finesse that the script problems are almost irrelevant.

January 11, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

Rarely are sequels this good

November 18, 2003 | Comment (1)
Clint Morris
Moviehole
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Audience Reviews for Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance

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"Die Hard with a Vengeance" was the first "Die Hard" I saw in the theater and it's my favorite of the sequels. John McClane is back and this time he's not in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's the right man, being targeted by a terorrist bomber named Simon(Jeremy Irons) who wants to play a game of simon says. If McClane doesn't do as he says, then he will blow up anything from a subway to a school in New York. McClane gets help from Zeus(Samuel L. Jackson) a guy who saves his life in Harlem, and they try to stop Simon and find out why he is doing all this. John McTeirnan was the director of the first movie and this is the only sequel he came back for, probably why it's the best. The action is phenomenal, the story is exciting, and Irons' Simon is the best of all the villains in the series, besides Hans Gruber. There are some scenes that are very over the top, but this is probably the most grounded of the entire series. Great movie, and if your looking for a roller coaster ride of a movie, then pop this bad boy back in.
February 15, 2013
Everett Johnson
Everett Johnson

Super Reviewer

While starting off promising in the first act of the film, John McClane is teamed up this time with an Electrician, as they are being sent through a "Simon Says" game in the city, where they must obey the villain, who is shocking a big part of the first film, which was a pretty big cop out in my eyes. This film is filled with one lazy action sequence after another and some of the dialogue, if not all of it, is very confusing and makes to sense to the plot. When I was viewing this film I could not help but role my eyes during every scene. "Die Hard with a Vengeance" is absolutely everything I hoped it wouldn't be. Uninteresting characters, horrible dialogue, and a premise that tries way too hard to be smart. This movie sucks!
October 1, 2010
KJ Proulx
KJ Proulx

Super Reviewer

Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance Quotes

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    1. John McClane: You and Simon ruined a perfectly good hangover.
    – Submitted by Dan E (2 months ago)
    1. John McClane: Say hello to your brother. [shoots down helicopter]
    – Submitted by Cody H (4 months ago)
    1. John McClane: You know, you're brother was an asshole.
    2. Simon Gruber/Peter Krieg: [laughs] He was! He was an asshole. You got his number.
    – Submitted by Cody H (5 months ago)
    1. John McClane: What is it that wall street doesn't have?
    2. Zeus Carver: What?
    3. John McClane: Schools [while watching at The Federal Reserve Bank of New York] And what do they have a shit load of?
    – Submitted by Siddhesh T (7 months ago)
    1. Simon Gruber/Peter Krieg: They bought it. Hook, line, and sinker.
    – Submitted by Julian T (7 months ago)
    1. John McClane: John McClane. NYPD.
    2. Gang Member: Are you all right?
    3. John McClane: Yes... laundry day.
    – Submitted by Siddhesh T (7 months ago)

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