Die Hard homages

Homage? If you wanna call it that...

- Thieves take control of an entire building and hold hostages in order to procure tons of money in the form of bearer bonds.

- The criminal leader is a cultured Englishman.

- The hero was in the building at the time of the seizure, and manages to sneak around unbeknownst to the criminals, often using ventilation shafts to move around.

- The lead henchman attempts the isolate the hero by poking said airshafts from underneath.

- The hero attempts to disrupt the criminals' plans with an explosion in the building.

- A nerdy criminal controls the operation from a computer terminal.

- Though it wasn't the hero, and though broken glass wasn't involved, a man must deal with being barefoot on uncomfortable terrain.

- The hero communicates to an outside ally via walkie-talkie.

- Also via walkie-talkie, the hero eavesdrops on the criminals as they negotiate their terms.

- The hero pulls a fire alarm in an attempt to summon outside help.

- The police are foiled in their attempts to move in, first on foot, then in a large vehicle.

- The criminal leader uses someone close to the hero, already a hostage, for leverage.

- Bonnie Bedelia was one hot mama.

- The line "sorry to break up this touching family reunion" was delivered in a very similar fashion to "touching, cowboy, touching".

- The hero's smart-arse tone (like giving Patrick Stewart a weather forecast before setting off the sprinklers) is reminiscent of McClane.

- The amount of money requested ($650 million in bearer bonds) is exactly the same as in the vault in Nakatomi Plaza.

It is an awful film though, and I consider all these references an insult to Die Hard.

...i saw this movie once on TV years ago.. I watched because of Stewart (playing the bad guy) as opposed to that episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Where he played the good guy (Starship Mine). So he has played both sides of the "Die Hard" scenario.

A friend of mine use to own a video store and when this first came out on video, he called it "Die Hard for kids"

"What are we supposed to use? Harsh language?"