8 Things The Die Hard Movies Tell You About Christmas

4. Security Sucks On Christmas Eve

Even though the emergency services are quick to respond, security on Christmas Eve is so lackadaisical that any fool can walk into a skyscraper, shoot the guards and take over the whole building within a matter of seconds. When one of the bad guys assumes the guard€™s identity, he€™s convincing enough to fool the single uniformed officer who drops by€.at least until a dead body lands on the roof of the cop€™s car. All of which pales into insignificance alongside the shoddy security at Die Hard 2€™s airport, where tabloid journalists can enter the control tower unchallenged, armed-to-the-teeth terrorists can mingle with passengers and, most disturbingly, John McClane is allowed to smoke in the main terminal (you can tell he€™s not in LA). You€™d think that an airport expecting a plane carrying an incarcerated drug lord would, you know, lay on some extra security, or that the police would be able to make the connection when McClane starts blowing bad guys away, but nobody else gets it. The only person capable of staying a step ahead of the villains is the guy who thought progress peaked with frozen pizza, making you wonder how these people keep their jobs.