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The Perfect Lean, Mean, Macho Machine

Die Hard Collection

Director: John McTiernan, Renny Harlin, Len Wiseman

Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Olyphant

(1988) Rated: R

US DVD release date: 19 June 2007

[26 March 2008]

by Marco Lanzagorta

The Die Hard series is a true rollercoaster of visual excesses guaranteed to raise the viewer’s adrenaline levels – while invoking intriguing ideological and cultural subtexts that deal with race, gender, masculinity, and social anxieties.

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