Die Hard: The Best (& Worst) Scenes From Each Movie

New York cop John McClane’s trip to his wife’s L.A. office block for a Christmas party that gets taken over by armed terrorists is the setup formed the basis for one of the most lucrative action movie franchises ever created. The Die Hard sequels have varied in quality, with the second movie moving the original’s premise to an airport, the inventive third one seeing the return of director John McTiernan, the fourth one taking the scope of the story nationwide, and the fifth and most recent one being universally panned.

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The sequels to Die Hard have had some great scenes, but they’ve also had some terrible ones (the ratio differs from sequel to sequel).