http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxBXm7ZUTM Majority Verdict: 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, and frequently enters lists of the greatest action movies ever made. Ebert's Review: Roger shows sure appreciation for the premise, though criticises Paul Gleason's skeptical police chief character ("the deputy chief is in the movie for only one purpose: to be consistently wrong at every step of the way"). So toxic does he feel the character is that he suggests he "undermines the last half of the movie", though he does revolve the film's stronger qualities - "impressive stunt work and good performances, especially by Rickman as the terrorist". Though I and most others disagree vehemently with this one, his description of Hans Gruber demonstrates that classically dry wit that made the critic famous (describing Hans Gruber succinctly as "well-dressed and has a neatly trimmed beard and talks like an intellectual and thinks he is superior to the riffraff he has to associate with") in the first place.
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