Bruce "best of the best" Willis

Simply the BEST movie EVER!

Thanks to so many elements, among which the best actor ever, the great Bruce Willis.

This movie inspired so many movies since, like Speed, or Under Siege (and 2), Don't Die Too Hard...
It gave a lot of codes to the genre.
We can see a lot of references to it in so much movies.

A lot of good fights. Especially the one against Karl, the blond guy. The fight with the chains where he's mad cause McClane killed his bro earlier is very good. So many times imitated.

The shootings through the table or in the windows are very good ideas, changing of so many very classical gun fights seen before, making them be funnier. Originality is always good in movies. And as so many movies have been done till yet, it's a luxury now.

Dialogues are very funny sometimes, and well written anyways.
Some characters are very likeable (John McClane of course, but also the nice and funny Sgt Al Powell) and some others very unpleasant (Hans Gruber, Karl, but also the guy flirting with Holly McClane, Richard, who isn't 1 of the terrorist, but clearly a person we should avoid. He's as annoying as this also in Die Harder.) So, this makes a good sauce, some very good interactions between them.

A very good idea also to have chosen this tower as main set.
The sequels are good (even excellent for Die hard with a Vengeance) but under. For example cause missing a set like this. Some kind of closed door movie's set.

The end is a very big climax. It's so good, pleasant, brilliant...

Of course, perfection doesn't exist, but I don't see what could be changed to make this film be better, sincerely. No matter if some seconds aren't excellent, it can't in any way spoil anything, as there are more than 2 amazingly wonderful hours in this movie.

Nominated for 4 Oscars, it's a shame that it didn't win any.
Also that it didn't win any nominations for the main Oscars.

Thanks everybody, neither Richard Gere, nor Don Johnson have had the role of John McClane. I can't imagine even in nightmares the movie with them instead of Bruce Willis.
Otherways, even if I really like Richard Dean Anderson (mainly in McGyver's role), I can't imagine him neither in the role, so...

I have this movie in video tape. A friend who had it in double gave me this that he recorded on TV, in 1993. Although it's far to be the most expansive, it's clearly the best gift ever made to me, or near.
I saw a lot of thousands movies since, some really are masterpieces, but no one has the level of quality, of perfection in every detail, of creativity, inventivity of the 1st Die Hard.

I sadly, don't have anymore video recorder (it's awful, considering the 400 videos I own, of which all my favs, but, it's not that expansive, so, I should buy a new one), so, I bought it a short time ago on DVD, but still didn't watch it. So, not since years, and writing this made me wanna watch it again so hard, so, I must do it now, so, I'm almost over.
;)
Yeah, I know, I was a bit telling my life, and it doesn't interess anyone, but, anyways...

If you haven't seen it, it's a wrong that you should quickly repair.
If you haven't like it, it's even a crime that you should quickly confess.

Great too!

The best of the series, after the 1st

The worst of the series, but anyway, very good

A great, excellent thriller with the best of the best, Bruce Willis.
Ben Foster is also very good, as the killer.

Very good underrated and not enough known Bruce Willis' movie.
The presence of Monica Bellucci is another good pretext to watch it.

An excellent sci-fi, by 1 of my masters, Luc Besson.
With the best ever, Bruce Willis!

1 of the best sci-fi movies I ever saw, with, of course, the Star Wars sexalogy or War of the Worlds, between else.

There are so many wonderfuly funny dialogues and situations (most of them in the 2d part of the movie) that you can't watch it without laughing; apart maybe if you lost your instructions for use of the laughter, or are the most boring people who ever lived.

Effects, images are beautiful (even if 1997 is the prehistory for special effects, and so, that the film would be very different if made nowadays), lighting your face, giving you energy, peps...

The sets, costumes, musics, and of course, the amazingly talented casting, and the designs of an whole future world, full of inventivity, original things, objects, full of great details, make this movie be a wonderfully beautiful entertainement; great hours to pass.
And it never gets old, if you are honest, you'll admitt it, understand it.

Leeloo and Korben are one of the loveliest couples of cinema's history, making us, the bachelors, cry of emotion 1 second.
The fact they are marvelously played by Bruce and Milla increase this feeling of course.

All the roles (till the 3rd ones) are wonderfully written, have funny or at least interesting quotes, all this written by 1 of my masters, Luc Besson, who also directed it.
For the rare ones who don't really see who he is, just check his work (as director, scriptwriter, producer, and almost all the jobs in the movie industry) here and/or on Imdb.com.
Apart all this, he also created the giant of cinema's industry, Europa.
Just a few examples:
He wrote and produced Danny the Dog, Bandidas, Revolver, Taken, The Transporter (1, 2 & 3), Taxi (1, 2, 3 &4; if you saw its remake, New York Taxi, you better watch Taxi 1 & 2; those are great action comedies), Kiss of the Dragon, District 13 (and its sequel, Ultimatum) Crimson Rivers (1 and 2), The Dancer...
He wrote and directed and produced The Big Blue, Nikita, Léon (The Professional), Arthur and the Invisibles (2 sequels soon), and Joan of Arc and The Fifth Element, staring his wife at this time, Milla Jovovich.
He also coproduced Ong-Bak (The Thai Warrior), Tom Yum Goong (The Protector), The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (1st director's job of Tommy Lee Jones), High Tension, Frontier(s) Home [the ecologist movie who's been shown in 150 countries on big screens (for example under the Eiffel tower, in Central Park, in the Red Place of Moscow, in Picadilly Circus...), and came the same day on DVD and theatres, last june]...

It was a bit long to read my comment???
Noooo..
Come ooon!
Lol

Just... WOW!

I thought it was pretty good, but not that much.

A very well thinked script, full of surprises, new developments who makes the suspense and the action never fall on the ground.
I love movies of which you never guessed the ending, and doubt of some things till the very last minute.
That's what films are made for.
To excite us, entertain, surprise, make laugh, distract... us.

Add to this writing a fu**ing good cast (not only Willis, but also the great Morgan, the talented Liu and Ben Kingsley, and I've been surprised by Hartnett that I didn't like a lot; without forgetting Mrs Tucci or Aiello, who definitely know how to act), mix well, and you obtain a damned good thriller sprinkled of comedy and emotion.

So, if you wanna pass a pair of good hours, let you tempted by it.

P.S.: You may be a bit disappointed during a moment.
Advice: Keep watching!
You'll not regret, trust me!

Good sci-fi's flick.
Touching when Bruce "the best" Willis sacrificed himself, near the end. Very moving to see his daughter (Liv Tyler) crying for him.

Funny!
1 more very good cast!

A veeery cool story!

This movie is 1 of the most touching that my hero made.
With Armageddon, Tears of the Sun and The Sixth Sense.
Let's admitt that films with kids often are moving!

This movie is anyways underrrated, not enough known I think.
It deserved a greater success, even if it's loved.

The casting is very good, and I wanna make a special mention to Miko Hughes, the young boy, who, although his talent, totally disappeared since.
Already 11 years passed, and I didn't hear about him for anything. He didn't have the same popularity than the other kid discovered with BW almost in the same time, I named Haley Joel Osment, in The Sixth Sense.
I just checked imdb, and saw that Miko has an uncredited role in Tropic Thunder; maybe even cut off the last editing.
I also saw he made a lot of movies and series since, but no 1 out of those movies came here, and Roswell, Boston public or Vero Mars aren't series I watch.
Anyways, I think I could see him in the next years.

The idea of the autistic kid who decipher a top secret government code has been used several times since, in movies or series, so, this film definitely inspired a lot of people, and it's normal, as the script is very well.
I sadly don't have any of these titles in mind now.
Oh yes, it's not the same, but I guess we can say that Knowing, with Nicolas Cage, is a bit inspired by Mercury Rising. But some films are more than it.

Anyways, a great entertainment for the family. Not children, but teenagers and adults, all ages.

A good actionner with the master of the genre, I named my hero, Bruce Willis.

Best of the trilogy

Excellent sequel, better than the 1st. A lot of action and fun.

Good direction
Nice treatment of the subject

A great movie the 1st time u see it.
Less next times, but still a good mov'. But not the best Shyamalan.

An underrated hitman story!

1 of the so numerous remakes Hollywood offers us since ages.
Some are better than the originals (Halloween, sooooo better).
Some are worse (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to stay in the horror genre, sooo worse than the 1974's one).
Some are more or less as well even if really different (Dawn of the Dead; even if I maybe prefer just a bit the new one).
And for some we dunno, as we didn't see the original.
Sometimes we really wanna see it (The Hills Have Eyes, The Day the Earth Stood Still... for me).
And sometimes not specially, like for this one or The Taking of Pelham 123 for me; although I loved the remake, adn really like this Jackal too.

Sadly with the so bad actor and ugly Richard Gere, but hopefully BW saves it.
When you say:
"A movie with BW and RG, it sounds so ridiculous, so stupid, that I can't believe a director dared, thought it could be a good idea.
Anyways, the script is good enough, and the other elemnets making this movie too, for it stays a pretty good thriller.

I have it on video, but as I own 500 movies, and also as I didn't have any videorecorder working since a lot of years, I didn't watch it since an eternity, and miss it.
But some weeks ago, a friend gave me his old one (as another friend did years ago, but it worked only a few months during), so, I'm happy, I'll finally be able to watch it (and hundreds others).
The pb is that I still didn't watch around 40 DVDs I bought last months (since more than a year ago) and didn't watch, even if some are movies I loved on theatres last years, and some are movies I wanna see since so much time.
I don't find the time to watch movies often, and that kills me.
I anyways go 1-2 time(s) by week to theatre, and watch 1 to 5-6-7 movies by week on TV.
So, I'm a filmvore!
Definitely!

Wow!
Why did I tell my life as anyone cares about?
Dunno!
Anyways, I assume, and even say **** to the unhappy ones.
lol

Interesting!
But not 1 of the best Shyamalan; even if the hero is played by the best of the best, I named, Bruce Willis.

A good moment!
It would not be so good without Bruce; so, thanks to him.

Fun, weird, ugly, well done and directed.

A good surprise!
(Even if a good film starring my hero never is a surprise in fact).

I dislike Billy Bob, but he anyways didn't annoy me at all in this movie.
I maybe even have been surprised by him.
I anyways can't understand how Angelina Jolie can have been married 3 years with him.
Neither I understand how she can have loved some others of her ex.
Brad is far away to be perfect (as every human is), but anyways, it's like she passed from toads to the prince.
Lmfao
XD

Otherways, the very talented and pretty Cate Blanchett (and the beautiful January Jones too) make the feminine cast be a bit under the masculine one, although the so powerful in all the ways BW.

The story is anyway hard to follow, catch, by moments.
So, I saw it alone in theatre, but when I bought it on DVD and showed it to my mother, she asked me explainations several times, although sh'e pretty intelligent.
But as people often complain about the movies missing a complex scripts, they should be happy with this one.
I love those complex movies (like the Matrix series for example), but I love as much some films where the script is a pretext to link the fights.
No matter, during the time I'm entertained!

I need to see it again!
So many y. since last time.
But not as well as I wanted.
A souvenir!
The theatre was so full, that I sat on the stairs to watch the movie. That's the only time I saw it. And there were somethin' like 450 seats in.

1 of the disappointing Bruce Willis, my hero, the best of the best. But it's anywy way better than The Kid, for example. And I didn't see all his movies, even if I really need to.
Mos Def voice is awful!
Poor guy!

It's an interesting dark movie.
The sex scene between Bruce and Jane March in the swimming pool is memorable.

Average!

Some very nice ideas and some very funny scenes, dialogues full of acid, full of sick humour, save it.
Those make the movie be entertaining anyways.
And after all, that's definitely a classic!

Sadly the story isn't gripping for me, and the so talented cast (Willis the 1st, and the most nominated of Oscars history Streep, + the very good Goldie, Caine, and the breast in the air Rossellini), even if they do perfectly their job, making be way better than it could've been with other actors, they anyways, can't make it be a wonderful movie.
That's only my opinion, after having seen it yesterday, after around 15 years since the last time.
Share it or not!
;)
But if there's something we can say, it's that I'm pretty mature on this point, cause I know so many people rating films 5/5 only cause they star their favorite artists.
And as you could see in my list: Bruce "best of the best" Willis, it's not his only movie to whom I put an average rating.

Anyways, the scenes of fight between the girls, or the way the resuscitate, or they "repair" their bodies, puting back in place the different parts, are amazingly funny moments.

So, it's clearly not a waste of time to watch it.
This could more be said maybe for The Kid (not the Chaplin film of course, but the Willis' 1).

Could've been really better.
The good point was to see mr Timberlake in a movie.
The bad points r:
The story; not gripping.
The fact that Bruce "the best" Willis has a too small role in it.

The point saving this movie is their choice for the baby's voice: the unique, Bruce Willis.

1 of the most disappointing Willis' movies.
Maybe it's a bit cause of Colin Farrell...

I saw it when I was a teen, and forgot a lot, but remember it wasn't too bad.

An original concept!
It would be interesting to make more movies with different directors.
In this genre, Paris, je t'aime was pretty good (depends of which short) and I wanna see it's "sequel", New York, I Love You.
I heard they are planning Tokyo, I Love You.
It'll be interesting too I guess.

Not a memorable movie, no matter what a lot of people say.
But the music is excellent!

Disappointing! Although Bruce!

I watched it on TV just for Bruce "the god" Willis; even if Andie MacDowell could've been one more reason.

It's not the worst movie with my hero that I saw (this was certainly The Kid), but far away of some great wonderful movies he was in, like Die Hard for example.

It's supposed to be funny by moments, but didn't make me laugh; too dumb, weird, complicated...

The couple Mayflower is so annoying.

The idea to use songs to time the thefts is good; sadly not enough used.

Probably the worst Bruce's movies I saw.
But cause there's Bruce, I can't put a worst rating.

Disappointing!
Not funny!

One of his worst movies!

If it isn't THE worst.
At least, near The Kid and the so disappointing Over the Hedge.
I have anyways to admitt that I almost remember anything of it; anything but that I really disliked it, finding it annoying.
I bet that the japanese movie who inspired it was better.
Like for example for The Ring.
RingU was really better.
But The Ring 2 was also really better than the 1st one.
Maybe the worst Willis' movie I saw, but far of the worst movie, so, it deserves a 2/5, I guess.

I want to see it, cause really liked the previous one.

I'm very impatient to see it!

The pitch makes me think a lot to I, Robot, who's a great movie with another great actor, Mr Smith.

I didn't heard of this, so, if I wanna see it, it's particularly for Bruce Willis; and why not also for the excellent Bob De Niro.

Now, I know a bit more, and Willis ahs one of his most funny and amazing looks ever in this comedy, who seems very funny.

Seems pretty good!

It anyways can't be bad, as no 1 BW movie is.
Of course a few are really disappointing, average, but no 1 is crappy, far away.
And the cutes Patricia Arquette and Avril Lavigne don't waste anything; it's even the opposite of course.
But I see (I forgot) it's a Linklater's film. It frightens me as, even if I never see any of his director's jobs, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset seem, for me, some of the worst movies ever. So annoying, and with uninteresting casts.
Yuck!
And A Scanner Darkly is a very originla project, but seems also boring for me; but anyways way better, which doesn't seem hard.
But I'm anyway curious about this one, mostly for him, so...

It's particularly for Bruce that I wanna see it.

I curious about it; specially cause of Bruce.

Only for Bruce; but it seems he has only a small role, and the movie doesn't seem good, so, I'll probably never watch it.

Just to see all Bruce's movies.

Just for Bruce!

Bruce Willis
Horror-war movie
2 good reasons for me to watch it.
I also like the tittle, and Michael Pitt and Woody Harrelson, without forgetting Oliver Stone, so, that makes a lot of reasons.

I love the Rugrats, but not the other cartoon's characters they meet in this movie.

Just cause there's Bruce Willis in it.

If there was no Bruce Willis in it, I would not have put that I wanna see it.

Only for Bruce WIllis; even if, -reading the resume -, it seems he doesn't have a big role in.