15 Bafflingly Low Rotten Tomatoes Scores You Won't Believe

13. Die Hard With A Vengeance (51%)

Critical Consensus: "Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance gets off to a fast start and benefits from Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson's barbed interplay, but clatters to a bombastic finish in a vain effort to cover for an overall lack of fresh ideas." Why It€™s Wrong: Uh, because Die Hard with a Vengeance is the second-best of the Die Hard movies, but the fourth-best reviewed, sitting behind the original (rightly at the top with 92%), Live Free or Die Hard (a surprisingly high 82%), and Die Hard 2 (a relatively generous 66%), but ahead of the execrable A Good Day to Die Hard (14%). Fan consensus online is pretty clear about this: the banter between Willis and Jackson is brilliant, and Jeremy Irons is easily the series' second-best villain behind Alan Rickman. Considering this is the only Die Hard sequel to tempt John McTiernan back to direct, it shouldn't be too surprising that it's so good. Why The Critics Hated It: Because they've always got their pitchforks out for sequels as it is, and after Die Hard 2 was just OK, they weren't really prepared for the possibility that the third time might be almost as fun as the first. How it hasn't enjoyed a critical upswing in the last few years is truly bizarre, though, given the general esteem for the movie these days.