{"id":56841,"date":"2025-08-10T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56841\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T10:38:09","slug":"best-masterpiece-action-film-of-all-time-now-streaming-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/56841\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Best masterpiece&#8217; action film of all time now streaming for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high-octane action film is still a classic<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_simon-gruber-die-hard.jpg\" alt=\"A man in grey looks serious\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Jeremy Irons starred in the hit 1990s action movie (Image: 20TH CENTURY FOX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">An action movie from the golden era of nail-biting blockbusters has now arrived for audiences to stream after audiences watched <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/film\/bruce-willis-best-film-since-34974445\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"another huge action film earlier this yearLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">another huge action film earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The movie came out in 1995 and became the high-grossing film of the year as viewers globally flocked to cinemas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Die Hard: With a Vengeance was the sequel to 1988 classic Die Hard and <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/hollywood-legends-bigger-better-action-35559697\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Die Hard 2 in 1990Link opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Die Hard 2 in 1990<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The third movie in the franchise has often been hailed as a solid sequel in the action franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Die Hard: With a Vengeance once again followed NYPD detective John McClane (played by <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/bruce-willis\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Bruce WillisLink opens in a new tab.\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bruce Willis<\/a>), now a washed-up alcoholic divorc\u00e9, as he was forced into a twisted game of Simon Says with a psychotic terrorist detonating bombs around the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_bruce-willis-die-hard-with-a-vengeance.jpg\" alt=\"A man looks serious \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Bruce Willis in his iconic role as John McClane in Die Hard: With a Vengeance (Image: GETTY)READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/long-lost-bruce-willis-masterpiece-32437370\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"32437370\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long-lost Bruce Willis &#8216;masterpiece&#8217; has Netflix viewers in tears and hailing it &#8216;his best film&#8217;<\/a>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/film\/die-hard-facts-16-action-13729430\" data-tmdatatrack=\"read-more\" data-tmdatatrack-articleid=\"13729430\" data-tmdatatrack-source=\"editorial\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Die Hard facts: 16 action-packed facts about everyone&#8217;s favourite Christmas film<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">McClane ended up partnering with shopkeeper Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) as they tried to stop the terrorist Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons) after learning of his plans to steal gold bullion from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The movie remains a classic to this day with audience members on IMDb raving about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One 10\/10 review was titled: \u201cDie Hard With A Vengeance is not only a great movie, it is arguably the best masterpiece sequel of all time!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">As a second review described the film as an \u201cAction comedy masterpiece\u201d and the user commented: \u201cIt&#8217;s very rare for the first three films in a movie franchise to be consistently excellent, but that&#8217;s the case with the DIE HARD series. The first one was an action movie masterpiece and hugely influential to this day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_samuel-l-jackson-die-hard.jpg\" alt=\"A man in glasses holds a phone and his hands in the air\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The movie is widely regarded as one of the best sequels in a franchise (Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe second one is disliked by some, but I think it&#8217;s very nearly the equal of the first, doing a tricky job of being the same but different at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cAnd the third is just a delight, an action comedy masterpiece that wreaks havoc throughout New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A third person titled their review: \u201cThis Die Hard is the fastest moving of the trilogy\u201d and explained: \u201cI like this one about as much as I like the first one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cThe first one had a better plot and was more tense, but this one moves at a very fast rate and it seems like it is over before it begins.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_jeremy-irons-die-hard-with-a-vengeance.jpg\" alt=\"A man in sunglasses looks serious \" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>The action movie remains a classic to this day(Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cA vast improvement over part two, this movie once again finds McClane in the middle of an emergency situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Someone else praised the film and said: \u201cThe Best Installment In The Die Hard Trilogy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">They continued: \u201cDie Hard:With A Vengeance deserves to be ranked in a top ten list of action movies. The first two Die Hard movies were brilliant but this installment [sic] just blows the first two out of the water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">After Die Hard: With a Vengeance, it would be 12 years before the Hollywood legend Willis revisited the franchise with Live Free or Die Hard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">There is a total of five films in the Die Hard franchise, with the final one A Good Day to Die Hard coming out in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Die Hard: With a Vengeance is streaming on BBC iPlayer now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The high-octane action film is still a classicJeremy Irons starred in the hit 1990s action movie (Image: 20TH&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11351,96,30990,2839,30991,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-56841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bruce-willis","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jeremy-irons","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-samuel-l-jackson","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}