10 Movies That Totally Ripped Off Die Hard

8. Under Siege (1992)

Under Siege does admittedly betray one of the key characteristics of the original Die Hard - that John McClane was an everyman - but even with Steven Seagal's ludicrously-monikered Casey Ryback being a former Navy SEAL-turned-chef, the style and tone of the movie still feels unwaveringly influenced by its genre predecessor.

Ryback pulls out his Special Set of Skills when the U.S. Navy battleship he's on is attacked by demented ex-CIA operative Bill Strannix (Tommy Lee Jones) and his team of commandos, who plan to steal the ship's nukes and flog them on the black market.

With Ryback working as a lone wolf for most of the movie and a seemingly "above-the-material" veteran actor playing the villain, it's basically Die Hard on a ship.

It's nowhere near as well-crafted overall, but giddily entertaining as B-movie tosh, all the way to Strannix's hilariously OTT demise. He has an eyeball gouged out, is stabbed in the head and then finally shoved head-first into a TV, which is at least a bold attempt to one-up Hans Gruber's (Alan Rickman) iconic death plunge.