Reviews

• Die Hard With a Vengeance is basically a wind-up action toy, cleverly made, and delivered with high energy. It delivers just what it advertises, with a vengeance.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  19 January 2013

• It's a tense, terrifically funny action dazzler with a wow level in special effects that will be hard to top.

  Peter Travers - Rolling Stone
  
  19 January 2013

• It should come as no surprise that Jonathan Hensleigh's script was not originally written as a "Die Hard" film. The blend of "Die Hard" and "With a Vengeance" is sometimes smooth but never complete. It's as if "Die Hard" were wearing a rented tux.

  Mick LaSalle - The San Francisco Chronicle
  
  19 January 2013

• Cutting to the chase: In terms of summer movie thrills, director John McTiernan's return to the "Die Hard" genre (he made the first one) is a triumph.

  Desson Thomson - The Washington Post
  
  19 January 2013

• 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.

  Rita Kempley - The Washington Post
  
  19 January 2013