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Article: THE CRITICS: Flash bangs go up in smoke
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 20, 1995
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THE STOICAL smile of Bruce Willis is tested to its limit in Die
Hard With a Vengeance (15). That sideways smirk - the limit of
Willis's facial repertoire - had, in the first two Die Hards,
outfaced terrorist psychopaths, marital angst, and the slings and
megablasts of outrageous fortune. Now it has to contend with
something still more lethal: a self- destructing script. Never mind
the bombs set to explode in primary schools all over New York city
- a more horrific carnage is spreading across the screen. As the
script blasts itself to bits, we watch the whole Die Hard series go
up in flames, like the hotel lobbies and airline jets of the first
two films.
Jonathan Hensleigh's script is a ...