Die Hard with a Vengeance
Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action film and the third in the Die Hard film series. It was produced and directed by John McTiernan who directed Die Hard, written by Jonathan Hensleigh, and stars Bruce Willis as New York City Police Department Lieutenant John McClane, Samuel L. Jackson as McClanes reluctant partner Zeus Carver, and Jeremy Irons as Simon Peter Gruber. It was released on May 19, 1995, five years after Die Hard 2, and was followed by Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard in 2007 and 2013, respectively.
Simon sends the two on a series of childrens riddles. At one point, he tells them to reach Wall Street station 90 blocks south, withinminutes to stop a bomb planted on a Brooklynboundtrain. McClane manages to board the subway while Carver drives the rest of the way. Though McClane locates the bomb and throws it off the train, it still detonates, derailing the train and sending it tearing through the station, though with minimal injuries due to Carvers warnings. As McClane and Carver regroup with the police, they are met by FBI agents, who reveal Simon is likely Peter Krieg, a former Colonel in the East German Peoples Army and a mercenaryforhire. Krieg is likely after McClane as Kriegs birth name is Simon Peter Gruber, the brother of Hans Gruber whom McClane had previously killed in Nakatomi Towers. Simon calls into the police again, knowing the FBI is there, and warns that he has planted another bomb in a public school somewhere in the city, and further it is rigged with a radio detonator that may be triggered by the police band. Simon tells them that he will get McClane and Carver the schools location if they continue to play his game. While McClane and Carver set off on Simons next task, the police organize all the citys public works to begin searching schools, using 911 to coordinate activities.As McClane continues to solve Simons riddles, he recognizes that Simon is using the school bomb distraction to draw the police away from Wall Street. They arrive too late to find that Simon and his agents used the destruction of the subway station to dig into the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and stolen 140 billion of gold bullion indump trucks. They follow the trucks to aqueduct in the New York City Water Tunnel No. 3, and McClane has Carver continue on Simons games. Within the tunnel he kills some of Simons men, discovering they have a roll of quarters on them. Simon destroys a cofferdam, flooding the tunnel, but McClane escapes through a vent, ending up n
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