DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE

Name: DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
Item: DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE
Author: Gaby Gaduh

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

Entertainment Quality:

	None	Light	Moderate	Heavy
Language
Violence
Sex
Nudity

Credits →

Content:

(NA, LLL, VVV, SS, N, A, M) Pagan worldview where justice & revenge carried out with extreme violence; 119 obscenities, 15 profanities & 30 vulgarities; graphic violence — three bomb explosions (building, subway, freighter ship), two fights including smashing bottled over heads & tossing bodies against walls, knife thrown at man, two graphic knifings with graphic bloodshed, several point blank gunfire killings, lethal injections, neck breaking, slamming body in door, man cut in half by wire, beating with chain, machine gun fire, helicopter crash, & action violence; briefly depicted sexual activity; upper male nudity & man rips open woman’s shirt to reveal undergarments; alcohol use; and, revenge & smoking.

More Detail:

Bruce Willis plays John McClane once again in DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE. This time, he’s back in his native New York City chasing down a crafty bomber named Simon played by Jeremy Irons. Simon forces McClane to do unbelievable feats in order to prevent further explosions. For example, McClane must wear a sign with an unflattering remark against the Black community in Harlem. Zeus, played by Samuel L. Jackson, becomes a reluctant partner to McClane, as he rescues McClane from angry Harlem residents and joins him in foiling Simon and his genius plan to bomb the subway under the city treasury building to access tons of gold.

McClane and Zeus perform other daring do in this predictable, yet thrilling, third outing. The “villain with explosives” challenge merely retains attention, rather than keeping us in suspense. Though Willis and Jackson are adequate in their roles, they can’t manage to entertain without barraging us with equal amounts of gratuitous profanities and obscenities and ultra-violent acts. Though in the end the villain reaps what he sows, the sometimes gross and revolting means this film portrays in dealing with justice further reinforces the pagan notion that might makes right, rather than a merciful, omnipotent Creator.