Die Hard with a Vengeance
A massive bomb explodes in the Bonwit Teller department store, causing several vehicles to flip, and causing NYPD into a frenzy, trying to sort out what's going on. At the station, Inspector Walter Co…
Die Hard with a Vengeance
A massive bomb explodes in the Bonwit Teller department store, causing several vehicles to flip, and causing NYPD into a frenzy, trying to sort out what's going on. At the station, Inspector Walter Cobb (Larry Bryggman) of the NYPD's major case unit gets a call from a man who calls himself Simon (Jeremy Irons). Simon asks for Lieutenant John McClane (Bruce Willis). Making demands in the form of a 'Simon Says' game, he threatens to detonate another bomb unless Lt. John McClane is sent to the corner of 138th Street and Amsterdam in Harlem wearing an intentionally provocative sandwich board. McClane was on suspension and Walter goes himself to fetch McClane who is still groggy due to the effects of alcohol and presumably drugs. Walter finds that there have been 3 killings in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn in the past two nights, and 14 dump trucks were stolen from a construction yard on Staten Island. Walter tells John that Simon has threatened to detonate another bomb if the police don't do what he says. John wants to know why he's been targeted by Simon, but no one knows why. John is dropped 10 blocks away from the location that Simon wanted him to be at, wearing a sandwich board with a racist message on it (as instructed by Simon). While John is in Harlem, he is confronted by an electrician and shop owner named Zeus Carver (Samuel L Jackson). McClane explains his situation before a group of gang members also confront McClane over his sign. Carver intervenes (takes the gun that was taped to the back of McClane) and saves McClane, and they escape in a taxi. They arrive at 1 Police Plaza, where a bomb expert Charlie (Kevin Chamberlin) brings in an abandoned suitcase from a playground, and describes that the bomb inside is very sophisticated. It is made of binary liquid, which is safe until it is mixed. Once the liquids mix, it explodes with huge force within a few minutes at most. The police have reports of raw materials being stolen which are enough to make 20,000 pounds of this stuff. Simon calls again and McClane gets into a verbal duel trading insults with him. Walter offers to demote McClane and remove him from the case, but Simon says that he would not give up McClane for "All the gold in your Fort Knox". Simon spoke German and stammered when McClane pushed him. Simon demands that the pair follow a timed challenge, or he will set off more bombs. They agree and reach a public phone. Simon instructs them that he has put a bomb on a train that will arrive at a subway station 90 blocks away in 30 minutes. McClane commandeers a taxi and drives through Central Park to get to the station on time. McClane eventually boards the 3-train heading towards the Wall Street station in order to defuse a bomb that Simon planted on it. Carver takes the taxi as a backup plan and drives to the station. Carver arrives at the station before McClane finds the bomb (inside the train concealed in the emergency phone system) and throws it on the tracks just as it explodes. McClane and Carver regroup with the NYPD and meet some FBI and CIA agents, who initially inform the pair that Simon is "Peter Krieg", a mercenary and former colonel in the National People's Army. They then reveal that Krieg's real name is Simon Peter Gruber, the brother of Hans Gruber, who McClane killed years earlier in Los Angeles. Simon calls that another bomb has been planted in one of New York's City schools, and that any police radio could set it off. Simon offers to give the authorities the school's location if McClane and Carver follow another timed challenge, warning that he will detonate the explosive if any evacuation attempts are carried out. While the pair solve Simon's next challenge, the NYPD begin to search all elementary schools in the city. McClane realizes that Simon is attempting to distract the NYPD away from Wall Street, which has no schools, and travels to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building. McClane finds Simon's men have raided the Federal Reserve Bank through the ruined subway system (the bomb that went off at the Wall Street Subway station was for this purpose), making off with $140 billion of gold bullion from the vault, hauling it away in the stolen dump trucks. McClane attempts to follow the dump trucks through the aqueduct, but Simon destroys a cofferdam and floods the tunnel. They continue to follow the dump trucks to a tanker, and make a daring attempt to board it, but are quickly caught. Simon explains that his school threat was fake and broadcasts a message claiming that he is planning on destroying the tanker to destabilize the Western world's economy. After he leaves, Carver and McClane free themselves and escape the tanker just before the bomb detonates. At the same time that the police attempt to evacuate the school they think the bomb is in, McClane and Carver find that Simon has instead used the rest of the explosive to rig the tanker to explode, which would send the gold to the bottom of the sea. After Simon leaves, McClane and Carver escape the doomed tanker just before the bomb is detonated. As McClane and Carver are debriefed by the NYPD, McClane informs them that none of the bullion Simon's men stole was in the tanker's cargo hold (and replaced it with scrap metal), having deduced that Simon had intended to keep all of it for himself, using his knowledge of the Gruber family's ways of working. While attempting to place a call to his estranged wife Holly, McClane glances at a bottle of aspirin given to him by Simon on-board the tanker and notices that it was purchased at a truck stop in Quebec on the Canada-United States border. McClane informs the NYPD of his discovery and joins them and Carver as they rush towards a warehouse near the truck stop where Simon and his men are redistributing the bullion and planning their escape. The rest of Simon's men are quickly apprehended by law enforcement personnel, though Simon and his girlfriend Katya attempt to escape in a helicopter, attacking McClane. McClane shoots at an overhead power line which falls onto the helicopter, causing it to crash and explode, killing Simon and Katya (Sam Phillips). While they are celebrating their triumph, Carver persuades McClane to place another call to Holly.
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Action,Adventure,Thriller
Film Details
A massive bomb explodes in the Bonwit Teller department store, causing several vehicles to flip, and causing NYPD into a frenzy, trying to sort out what's going on. At the station, Inspector Walter Cobb (Larry Bryggman) of the NYPD's major case unit gets a call from a man who calls himself Simon (Jeremy Irons). Simon asks for Lieutenant John McClane (Bruce Willis).
Making demands in the form of a 'Simon Says' game, he threatens to detonate another bomb unless Lt. John McClane is sent to the corner of 138th Street and Amsterdam in Harlem wearing an intentionally provocative sandwich board. McClane was on suspension and Walter goes himself to fetch McClane who is still groggy due to the effects of alcohol and presumably drugs.
Walter finds that there have been 3 killings in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn in the past two nights, and 14 dump trucks were stolen from a construction yard on Staten Island. Walter tells John that Simon has threatened to detonate another bomb if the police don't do what he says. John wants to know why he's been targeted by Simon, but no one knows why.
John is dropped 10 blocks away from the location that Simon wanted him to be at, wearing a sandwich board with a racist message on it (as instructed by Simon). While John is in Harlem, he is confronted by an electrician and shop owner named Zeus Carver (Samuel L Jackson). McClane explains his situation before a group of gang members also confront McClane over his sign.
Carver intervenes (takes the gun that was taped to the back of McClane) and saves McClane, and they escape in a taxi. They arrive at 1 Police Plaza, where a bomb expert Charlie (Kevin Chamberlin) brings in an abandoned suitcase from a playground, and describes that the bomb inside is very sophisticated. It is made of binary liquid, which is safe until it is mixed.
Once the liquids mix, it explodes with huge force within a few minutes at most. The police have reports of raw materials being stolen which are enough to make 20,000 pounds of this stuff. Simon calls again and McClane gets into a verbal duel trading insults with him.
Walter offers to demote McClane and remove him from the case, but Simon says that he would not give up McClane for "All the gold in your Fort Knox". Simon spoke German and stammered when McClane pushed him. Simon demands that the pair follow a timed challenge, or he will set off more bombs.
They agree and reach a public phone. Simon instructs them that he has put a bomb on a train that will arrive at a subway station 90 blocks away in 30 minutes. McClane commandeers a taxi and drives through Central Park to get to the station on time.
McClane eventually boards the 3-train heading towards the Wall Street station in order to defuse a bomb that Simon planted on it. Carver takes the taxi as a backup plan and drives to the station. Carver arrives at the station before McClane finds the bomb (inside the train concealed in the emergency phone system) and throws it on the tracks just as it explodes.
McClane and Carver regroup with the NYPD and meet some FBI and CIA agents, who initially inform the pair that Simon is "Peter Krieg", a mercenary and former colonel in the National People's Army. They then reveal that Krieg's real name is Simon Peter Gruber, the brother of Hans Gruber, who McClane killed years earlier in Los Angeles. Simon calls that another bomb has been planted in one of New York's City schools, and that any police radio could set it off.
Simon offers to give the authorities the school's location if McClane and Carver follow another timed challenge, warning that he will detonate the explosive if any evacuation attempts are carried out. While the pair solve Simon's next challenge, the NYPD begin to search all elementary schools in the city. McClane realizes that Simon is attempting to distract the NYPD away from Wall Street, which has no schools, and travels to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building.
McClane finds Simon's men have raided the Federal Reserve Bank through the ruined subway system (the bomb that went off at the Wall Street Subway station was for this purpose), making off with $140 billion of gold bullion from the vault, hauling it away in the stolen dump trucks. McClane attempts to follow the dump trucks through the aqueduct, but Simon destroys a cofferdam and floods the tunnel. They continue to follow the dump trucks to a tanker, and make a daring attempt to board it, but are quickly caught.
Simon explains that his school threat was fake and broadcasts a message claiming that he is planning on destroying the tanker to destabilize the Western world's economy. After he leaves, Carver and McClane free themselves and escape the tanker just before the bomb detonates. At the same time that the police attempt to evacuate the school they think the bomb is in, McClane and Carver find that Simon has instead used the rest of the explosive to rig the tanker to explode, which would send the gold to the bottom of the sea.
After Simon leaves, McClane and Carver escape the doomed tanker just before the bomb is detonated. As McClane and Carver are debriefed by the NYPD, McClane informs them that none of the bullion Simon's men stole was in the tanker's cargo hold (and replaced it with scrap metal), having deduced that Simon had intended to keep all of it for himself, using his knowledge of the Gruber family's ways of working. While attempting to place a call to his estranged wife Holly, McClane glances at a bottle of aspirin given to him by Simon on-board the tanker and notices that it was purchased at a truck stop in Quebec on the Canada-United States border.
McClane informs the NYPD of his discovery and joins them and Carver as they rush towards a warehouse near the truck stop where Simon and his men are redistributing the bullion and planning their escape. The rest of Simon's men are quickly apprehended by law enforcement personnel, though Simon and his girlfriend Katya attempt to escape in a helicopter, attacking McClane. McClane shoots at an overhead power line which falls onto the helicopter, causing it to crash and explode, killing Simon and Katya (Sam Phillips).
While they are celebrating their triumph, Carver persuades McClane to place another call to Holly..