Die Hard. 1988.
New York cop John McClane travels to L.A. to be with his family for Christmas, the building where she works is taken over by German terrorists and McClane is forced to take action on his own in the building.
One of greatest action films ever produced, with a case to be made for the the absolute great time of the festive part of the year. The story is nothing special, one building, 20 or so terrorists and one bad ass vest wearing Bruce Willis. Its basically Bruce vs. the bad guys. And he does it with style, and many twists along the way.
What follows is just over two hours of high octane action, smart dialogue and technical smarts with unfished floors of the building that makes it McClane's play ground to kill the bad guys, either shooting, throwing them out the window or blowing up a floor and making friends with a routine patrol cop on the outside who got his car smashed to hell.
Alan Rickman does a great job as villain Hans Gruber who wants to show the Nakatomi company what real power is with his side henchman Alexander Godunov who John seems to enjoy upsetting by surviving a gun fight and smart mouth comments.
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