Après on s'étonnera que certains films marchent mieux à l'étranger qu'aux Etats Unis.
Un petit tour d'horizon sur
Die Hard 3 en 1995, où on nous explique pêle mêle que la franchise est morte, que c'est du déjà vu et revu, que ça pète partout et tout le temps mais pour pas grand chose, et que c'est surtout ennuyeux...
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AUSTIN CHRONICLE
this third installment unfortunately forsakes much of the occasionally clever, somewhat wry dialogue and situations of its predecessors in favor of a more generic action-adventure approach that piles on stunt after stunt, explosion atop explosion, and leaves you with nothing so much as a headache and the notion that the Die Hard franchise is indeed dead.
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WASHINGTON POST
Director John McTiernan, who redefined the action genre in the original "Die Hard," does devise some smashing explosions, crashes and so on, but nothing really new.
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THE NEW YORKER
McTiernan supplies one climax after another, but when the whole intense, meaningless experience is over you may have trouble putting a name or a face to the movie that just had its way with you.
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
In Die Hard With a Vengeance, McTiernan stages individual sequences with great finesse (there's a terrific bit with Willis and five thugs in an elevator), yet they don't add up to a taut, dread-ridden whole.
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LOS ANGELES TIME
The "Die Hard" series was never exactly big on nuance, but this new installment relentlessly zeros in on sensation. It's almost sadistically single-minded.
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VARIETY
An overinflated mishmash that compels the audience to sift through a lot of rubble for the few requisite thrills, this second "Die Hard" sequel leaves a lot of creative wreckage in its wake.
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NEWSWEEK
But Die Hard With a Vengance lacks the freshness of its two predecessors: we've had it with gassy police psychiatrists and supersmart terrorists.
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FILMCRITIC
The point of an action thriller like this is that it's supposed to be exciting and keep you on the edge of your seat. Die Hard With a Vengeance does neither. Most of the time it's boring because the story is almost pure nonsense.