8 Things The Die Hard Movies Tell You About Christmas
5. Bureaucrats Work Overtime During The Holidays
Like his brother Carmine, who heads the airport police, Sergeant Vito Lorenzo is a difficult man to please. Unimpressed by John McClane, even though hes not only a fellow cop but also a hero, and uninterested in showing him professional courtesy, Vito goes out of his way to be mean and unpleasant, even towing away his car. In order for McClane to prove himself (and get his parking ticket torn up), he has to uncover a plot to rescue a deposed General, fight and kill multiple henchmen, reveal that Carmines SWAT team are working with the villains and attempt (unsuccessfully) to stop them from crashing a plane. He also helps save the lives of hundreds of passengers when, after blowing up the bad guys jet, he provides the circling liners with a landing light, thus saving the day for one and all. By this time, the body count is in 3 figures and all the Lorenzos did was to enforce petty bureaucracy, but its the thought that counts.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
