Die Hard

6 movies, 1 other in this series

Now Playing Podcast says Yippee-ki-yay to the Die Hard series. Beginning with The Detective, the 1968 film whose source novel would eventually lead to John McClane, we trace the franchise from its unlikely roots through the explosive adventures that made Die Hard a defining action series. Join us as we review the films, the villains, the increasingly impossible situations, and the evolving legacy of cinema’s most reluctant action hero.

Movie Reviews

Die Hard 2

How can the same thing happen to the same podcast twice?!

Reviewed Jan 29, 2013
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead. Genres: Action, Thriller
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Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Maybe John and Zeus can call in The Wolf to help with Simon.

Reviewed Feb 5, 2013
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration. Genres: Action, Thriller

A Good Day to Die Hard

Something to listen to while on vacation.

Reviewed Feb 19, 2013
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes. Genres: Action, Thriller

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