SIMON SAID - Die Hard 3

Die Hard certainly deserve the reputation to be called one of the best action movies. Die Hard 3 is not just a comeback of the heroic cop John McClane, it gets even better since the last ones. The story and McClane’s life develops to deliver another great episode of Die Hard. What is a hero without a villain? If there’s no villain, there will be no hero. It’s also the villain with his hidden motive and twisted mind, which make this movie even more exciting.

A lunatic psychopath who called himself Simon (Jeremy Irons) started his action by blowing up a store in one of the New York City’s location. He surely got the polices’ attention after that. As the chief of police spoke to him, Simon said that he wanted John McClane to play a game with him – A deadly game we all knew that someone would get his ass kicked – Otherwise he would blow up another place in the city.

The police quickly searched for McClane and found him in a rather messy-fucked-up condition. It appeared that his life was not well and his marriage was in chaos… again. McClane was tired and had a bad headache. One thing he didn’t realize that he would be having a really bad day soon enough.

Nobody knew why Simon was so pissed with McClane. Even McClane himself couldn’t tell why. Simon wanted to play with him, asked him to do stupid and dangerous things. A failure in doing the tasks meant another explosion in public places. McClane and the police didn’t have any choice but to play along, hoping that some clues about Simon would be revealed during the process.

This time McClane was not alone. He got himself a black civilian from the Harlem named Zeus as a partner (Samuel L. Jackson) – Or should I say, an unwilling partner because he was taken by force. Zeus got involved as he was trying to reason with McClane when he saw McClane did a very stupid-crazy thing – Yeah, you should see what he did and why. Simon preferred to call the black Harlem guy “The Black Samaritan” and asked him – or should I say forced him to play along with McClane.

So the New York City became their playground as Simon gave McClane and Zeus many tasks, which they had to complete within impossible time limits. Who the heck was Simon anyway? What did he really want and why he was so pissed with McClane? Well, you should be surprise as you follow the story that Simon’s twisted mind was not the only problem, but also his hidden motives. Would McClane and Zeus be able to outsmart him? They’re very tired and angry but they were as amusing as their funny and hilarious dialogs filled every scene. Yeah… Yippe Kay Yay… You M !@#$%^&*()_!

Ivan the Freelancer