3 – Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
“You are about to have a very bad day” is a line uttered by Samuel L. Jackson’s Zeus Carver in Die Hard: With a Vengeance, aimed at the belligerent John McClane, playing lovingly by Bruce Willis. Taking place in New York City, we watch on as our hero vies to take down German terrorist Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons), who plans on robbing the Federal Reserve.
Directed by John McTiernan, the inclusion of the third instalment in the Die Hard franchise within this list is something of a lucky dip – as the films are deliberately renowned for taking place across one single, immensely destructive day. However this one seems to just about pip the other two. Why? Because it means we get to use that quote above, of course.
