Die Hard 1 (1988)

PLOT

On Christmas Eve, Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) of the New York City Police Department arrives in Los Angeles to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly Gennaro (Bonnie Bedelia). McClane is driven to the Nakatomi Plaza building by a limo driver named Argyle (De'voreaux White). The company Christmas party is disrupted by the arrival of twelve terrorists led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman). The terrorists cut the telephone lines, seal the building exits, and replace the building guard with one of their own. Hans and his group secure the party goers as hostages, but McClane manages to slip into the stairwell of the building. Gruber portrays himself to the police as a terrorist working towards various extremist goals, but it is revealed that they are actually trying to steal $640 million in bearer bonds from the Nakatomi vault. When Nakatomi executive Joseph Takagi (James Shigeta) refuses to reveal the code for one of the vault's seven locks, Gruber executes him. Gruber orders Theo (Clarence Gilyard Jr.), his technical expert, to break through the locks on the vault. Theo reminds Hans that the final lock is powered by circuits that cannot be cut locally. Gruber promises to handle the last lock.

McClane moves through the building, hiding from or killing the terrorists he encounters. He learns more of their motives while acquiring a two-way radio, C4 explosives, and detonators from the body of one terrorist. McClane uses the radio to attract the attention of the LAPD, who send Sergeant Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson) to investigate. Gruber sends his men, led by Karl (Alexander Godunov), to kill McClane and retrieve the detonators. Fooled by the impostor guard, Powell is about to leave when McClane drops the corpse of a terrorist onto Powell's police car. McClane explains the situation via the two-way radio as the police, led by Deputy Police Chief Dwayne T. Robinson (Paul Gleason), arrive. The police send in a SWAT team and an armored vehicle. McClane and Powell are unable to prevent the SWAT team from being ambushed, but McClane manages to kill the terrorists attacking the SWAT team. One of Holly's coworkers, Harry Ellis (Hart Bochner), tries to negotiate with Hans and McClane for the return of the detonators. McClane refuses to return them, and Hans shoots Ellis. The FBI arrive, and take control from the police. They order the power to the building shut down, which turns off vault's final lock as Gruber had intended.

Gruber lures the FBI into a trap by giving them a list of demands including a helicopter to transport his men and the hostages from the roof of the building to Los Angeles International Airport. When McClane finds Gruber working on something below the roof, Gruber pretends to be a hostage. They share a smoke and McClane gives Gruber an unloaded gun, but is forced to flee when Gruber calls the other terrorists. As Gruber orders the hostages to the roof he learns from a TV report that Holly is McClane's wife and takes her hostage. Before McClane can warn anyone about the explosives on the roof he is stopped by Karl. McClane subdues Karl by hanging him by the neck with a chain. McClane scares the hostages away from the roof by shooting a gun into the air. The FBI mistakes him for a terrorist and shoots at him, forcing him to jump off the roof tethered to a fire hose just before the terrorists detonate the C4. He re-enters the building via an office window, making his way to Gruber, who uses Holly as a human shield. McClane pretends to surrender and shoots Hans and the final terrorist after they are distracted. Gruber crashes through a window and grabs Holly's wrist, hanging on to her watch. McClane is able to release the watch, catching Holly while Gruber falls to his death.

McClane and Holly are escorted from the building, meeting Powell in person. Karl's body is brought out on a stretcher when he rises up with a gun and points it at McClane. Karl is shot by Powell before he can open fire, and Argyle comes crashing out the parking garage in the limo, after having detained Theo attempting to escape with the bonds. John and Holly are driven off by Argyle, their relationship renewed by their experiences.

TRAILER THIS FILM (1988)

~Die Hard is a 1988 action film and the first in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza. It is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was previously made into a 1968 film starring Frank Sinatra. The film was produced by Lawrence and Charles Gordon, along with Joel Silver.It stars Bruce Willis as NYPD officer John McClane and Alan Rickman as terrorist thief Hans Gruber~

P/S : Actually, there's a Trilogy on this film like Die hard 2, Die hard with Vengeance and Die hard 4.0 but this first trilogy(Die hard 1) is much more better and best than other this trilogy film.Bruce Wills is cool actor and with this film is making so cool with his acting.

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