Summertime is the perfect time for binge-watching blockbusters, and Amazon’s currently (as of 6/22/16) running a sale on the Die Hard series, with the first four movies priced to own at $7.99 each in HD.
Die Hard (R, 4.5/5 stars)
NYPD cop John McClane goes on a Christmas vacation to visit his wife Holly in Los Angeles where she works for the Nakatomi Corporation.
While they are at the Nakatomi headquarters for a Christmas party, a group of bank robbers led by Hans Gruber take control of the building and hold everyone hostage, with the exception of John, while they plan to perform a lucrative heist.
Unable to escape and with no immediate police response, John is forced to take matters into his own hands.
– Written by Sam, IMDB
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (R, 4/5 stars)
After the terrifying events in LA, John McClane (Willis) is about to go through it all again.
A team of terrorists, led by Col. Stuart (Sadler) is holding the entire airport hostage. The terrorists are planning to rescue a drug lord from justice. In order to do so, they have seized control of all electrical equipment affecting all planes.
With no runway lights available, all aircraft have to remain in the air, with fuel running low, McClane will need to be fast.
– Written by Film_Fan, IMDB
Die Hard With A Vengeance (R, 4.5/5 stars)
John McClane is now almost a full-blown alcoholic and is suspended from the NYPD. But when a bomb goes off in the Bonwit Teller Department Store the police go insane trying to figure out what’s going on. Soon, a man named Simon calls and asks for McClane.
Simon tells Inspector Walter Cobb that McClane is going to play a game called “Simon Says”. He says that McClane is going to do the tasks he assigns him. If not, he’ll blow off another bomb.
With the help of a Harlem electrician, John McClane must race all over New York trying to figure out the frustrating puzzles that the crafty terrorist gives him.
But when a bomb goes off in a subway station right by the Federal Reserve (the biggest gold storage in the world) things start to get heated up.
– Written by SARSman1793, IMDB
Live Free or Die Hard (R, 4.5/5 stars)
When someone hacks into the computers at the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division; the Director decides to round up all the hackers who could have done this.
When he’s told that because it’s the 4th of July most of their agents are not around so they might have trouble getting people to get the hackers. So he instructs them to get local PD’S to take care of it. And one of the cops they ask is John McClane who is tasked with bringing a hacker named Farrell to the FBI.
But as soon as he gets there someone starts shooting at them. McClane manages to get them out but they’re still being pursued. And it’s just when McClane arrives in Washington that the whole system breaks down and chaos ensues.
– Written by rcs0411, IMDB
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