Daisy Ridley Goes John McClane in This Intense Action Thriller Now Streaming on HBO Max
The iconic 1988 action classic,Die Hard, provided a perfect template for the action genre upon its release. The simple premise of pitting a lone hero with a particular set of skills against an army of terrorists within one massive location was so effective that it resulted in many action films borrowing fromDie Hard’s pitch-perfect structure, implementing many of the same concepts and plot devices in many action films that followed. Some of these have been very solid in their own right, from1992’sUnder SiegestarringSteven Seagalto the underrated 1995Jean-Claude Van Dammefilm,Sudden Death; while others have been less successful, such as 2018’sSkyscraper, which sawDwayne Johnsontrying to capture theDie Hardmagic for a new generation, to no avail....