Die Hard: With A Vengeance

What starts off as a peaceful day in New York City is shattered by an explosion.  The bomber "Simon"  calls the police and orders John McClane (Bruce Willis) to go on a little adventure.  He wanders down Harlem with a very racial sign and almost gets himself killed. Luckily Zeus (Samuel L. Jackson) is there and helps him out, not very willingly mind you.  Simon (Jeremy Irons) turns out to be Simon Gruber, Hans Gruber's brother, and he wants revenge on the man who killed his brother. Together with Zeus, McClane runs around New York City stopping bombs from going off around the city. One does go off in a subway but somehow both Zeus and McClane survive.

McClane has a feeling something else is going on, but has little time to think about it when Simon tells them there is a bomb inside a school and only when he completes the tasks given to him will Simon tell them which school. McClane's instincts are correct, however. Simon is keeping the police busy chasing the bomb at a school while he and his team break into the Federal Reserve that holds more gold than Fort Knox.

There are a few twists and turns at the end because Simon is like four steps ahead of everybody else and no one (not even some of his henchmen) know where the gold is. Fist the gold is in trucks then it's on a  boat then, I'm not too sure where it goes but somehow it crosses the border up into Canada and after McClane survives the latest attempt to kill him, he eventually gets Simon and the gang. Yay!

I love this movie. It is packed with action and violence and a bit of mystery as we aren't sure what Simon is after. It keeps you on the edge of your seat. Willis and Jackson have an awesome chemistry together, they play really well off each other and they make this movie. There is also no way to go wrong with Jeremy Irons as a villain. I loved how this movie flowed from one scene to the next. It was cohesive and it made sense.

I really don't understand two scenes during to movie. The very last clue that Zeus went to go get at the baseball field makes no sense to me. I have no idea what it says on the bottom and I have no idea what  Presidents of the United States have to do with anything. The second scene that make no sense to me is the riddle in the fountain. Now I understand how to solve the riddle, it isn't really that hard. You fill the 3 gallon bottle and pour it into the 5, then you fill the 3 again and pour some more into the 5, but since the 5 gallon bottle already had 3 gallons in it, there is only room for 2 gallon which leaves 1 gallon in the 3 gallon bottle. You dump out the 5 and pour the 1 gallon in the 5, then refill the 3 and again pour in to the 5 gallon bottle. 1+3=4 and you have exactly 4 gallons of water. That's how you solve it. I have no idea what they did, or how they even solved because it is nothing like the way I just described.

Other than that: awesome movie.

Grade: 8.5 /10