6. Terrible Villains
One of the best things about the previous Die Hard films was unquestionably the villains; Hans Gruber is of course the series favourite, but Colonel Stuart, Simon Gruber and Thomas Gabriel all had a degree of vitality and savage intelligence that made them great fun to watch. Here, however, I can't even recite a single one of the villain's names without resorting to the press kit, partially because the difficult-to-pronounce Russian names all blur into one, but mainly because they're all so perfunctory and thinly-drawn. Radivoje Bukvis Alik is probably the most entertaining of the bunch, snacking on carrots while talking to the McClane boys, tap dancing and announcing his hated for Americans (especially cowboys). However, it's a brief moment of fun, for the character is mostly as one-note as all the others, and promptly gets shot in the head 2/3 through the movie anyway. The third-act villain, Yuliya Snigir's Irina had the potential to be the series' first legitimate femme fatale, but she's mostly just window dressing, and suffers a ridiculously idiotic demise (which I'll get to in a second).