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Synopsis: John McClane is now almost a full-blown alcoholic and is suspended from the NYPD. But when a bomb goes off in the Bonwit Teller Department Store the police go insane trying to figure out what's going on. Soon, a man named Simon calls and asks for McClane. Simon tells Inspector Walter Cobb that McClane is going to play a game called "Simon Says". He says that McClane is going to do the tasks he assigns him. If not, he'll set off another bomb. With the help of a Harlem electrician, John McClane must race all over New York trying to figure out the frustrating puzzles that the crafty terrorist gives him. But when a bomb goes off in a subway station right by the Federal Reserve (the biggest gold storage in the world) things start to get heated.
Director(s): John McTiernan
Production: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
R
Year:
1995
128 min
4,615 Views


Start acting crazy,

like loony tunes,

like Bellevue.

Hey, Zeus.

This your friend?

He look like

a friend of mine?

I think the dude just escaped

from some hospital,

you know,

like Bellevue?

I am the...

voice of my own God.

I told the librarian

that I had a bad headache,

but she didn't

believe me.

I really do have a bad headache,

a very bad headache!

My head does not-

Shut the f*** up!

You've made

a very bad mistake.

Bouya his ass.

Ha ha ha!

Ha ha!

Cut that sh*t off.

BLACK MAN #2

Fellas, fellas. Nature boy here hates niggas.

What are we gonna do about that?

Hold up, hold up,

hold up!

Oh, sh*t!

Back! Back up!

Back the f*** up!

Now!

Come on, man,

get up.

Get out of here!

Stop the cab-

stop the goddamn cab!

Don't shoot me!

Get up! Come on, get up!

Back off.

I mean it!

I don't want to,

but I will.

Go, go!

Get the f***

out of here!

Don't stop. Don't stop.

Just keep driving.

Run the red light!

Here, man.

That's all I got.

Put that f***ing

money away.

Just run all the lights.

Drive.

You got it, boss.

That cut deep?

How the hell

would I know?

Just keep pressure

on it.

Oh, f***!

Jesus, right?

John McClane. I owe you.

Damn right you owe me!

Know what they're doing

to my shop right now?

Chill out.

Chill out?

Are you trying to relate to me?

Talk like a white man.

Look,Jesus,

I'm sorry-

Why you keep calling meJesus?

I look Puerto Rican?

Guy back there

called you Jesus.

He said, " Hey, Zeus. "

My name is Zeus.

Zeus?

As in father of Apollo,

Mount Olympus?

MCCLANE:

"Don't f*** with me or I'll shove a lightnin'

bolt up yo ass" Zeus!

You got a problem

with that?

No. I don't have

a problem with that.

Downtown. Police Plaza.

Oh, ho. Oh.

That's just great.

Record of all callers...

Textbook megalomania.

It's a pathological state

in which fantasies of control

or omnipotence predominate.

He wants control

over him,

over his actions, over his thoughts,

even his emotions.

Sounds like

a secret admirer,John.

Yeah. Maybe he'll

send me flowers.

Everybody knows

you like pansies.

It's not that kind

of emotion.

This guy is ugly.

How is that?

Nothing wrong with him

a shower wouldn't cure.

Beer's normally taken internally,

John.

Just give me some aspirins,

will you?

O.K. Hold this here.

This is Fred Schiller,John,

and he's a-

Shrink.

Yeah, I got it.

Yes. I was saying that

we're dealing

with a megalomaniacal personality

with possible paranoid

schizophrenic-

Skip to the part

where you tell me

what the f*** this

has to do with me.

I don't know,

but it does have specifically

to do with you.

This guy wants to pound you

till you crumble,

dance to his tune,

then-

Put on a dress

and f*** me?

I was going to say

kill you.

He's sitting on

an awful lot of rage,

and it could be manifested physically

if he's stressed.

Somebody he arrested,

somebody he pissed off?

That could be

one long list.

F*** you,Joe.

These people don't like

to work anonymously.

They want you to know

who's doing it.

This name Simon is probably

not an alias.

It's probably Simon

or some variation.

"Simon, Robert E.

Busted in '86.

Extortion. Kidnapping.

Did seven years

for good behavior.

Released on a state work furlough

two months ago. "

Thanks. Bob Simon

was a bankrupt businessman

who kidnapped

his partner's daughter.

He's a fuckup,

not a psycho.

The other guy's nuts.

A nut who knows

a lot about bombs.

We found this

in a playground.

Professional.

Very cool stuff.

You know, boom.

Think you should slam it around

like that, Charlie?

It's unmixed.

Can't hurt it.

This stuff is cutting edge,

a binary liquid.

A what?

Like epoxy.

Two liquids.

Either one

by itself...

you got nothing.

But mix them...

Ricky.

Aah!

Charlie, you'll be wearing that chair

up your ass!

Christ almighty, Charlie!

Like I said,

very cool stuff.

With a package

like this,

you get a warning.

The bomb

has to arm itself.

The red liquid

pumps into the clear

before it detonates.

How long before?

Could be anything.

But once it's mixed...

be somewhere else.

This stuff has got

to be pretty rare.

Find out if any of it's

missing someplace.

Livermore labs-

theft over the weekend.

Got enough to make

another one,Joe?

About 2,000 pounds.

Of that?

The detonating mechanism

can be anything-

radio, electrical.

You could use a beeper

and phone it in.

Inspector!

It's him.

He's got a feedback

loop on it.

A nasty

little trick-

Charlie. Charlie.

What?

Want to start the trace?

Simon.

He bought a board, walked the street,

and survived.

Where are my pigeons now?

Pigeons?

I had two pigeons,

bright and gay,

fly from me the other day.

Why was it

that they did go?

You cannot tell.

You do not know.

You mean McClane.

No. I mean Santa Claus.

Yeah, I'm here.

Ah. There after all.

And your friend?

Come on.

We need you in the other room.

Let's go. Come on.

They need you. Go.

Yeah, he's here, too.

May I speak with him?

Well, is the ebony samaritan

there now?

You got a problem

with ebony?

No, no. My only problem is

that I went

to some trouble

preparing that game

for McClane.

You interfered

with a well-laid plan.

You can stick

your well-laid plan

up your well-laid ass.

That was not smart.

There are lives

at stake here.

Not enough time,

Inspector.

You better hope

he calls back.

He will.

Ricky, tell those people

to shut the hell up

out there!

Hey! Keep it down here!

Simon.

He wasn't speaking

for all of us.

That was unpleasant.

Don't let it

happen again.

So what's your name,

boy?

Don't call me boy.

I'm sorry.

It was a poor attempt at humor.

I would send you home

with a chiding,

but now I think

you should join the game.

We got him.

A pay phone in Oslo.

Wait. They say it's Mexico.

Norway?

Now they're saying

it's Juarez, Mexico.

Forget it.

He's scrambling up

the system.

They don't know

where he is.

Having fun with the phone company,

are we?

Simon says McClane

and the samaritan

will go to

the subway station

at 72nd and Broadway.

I'll call you

in 15 minutes

on the pay phone

outside the station.

No police.

Failure to answer will constitute

noncompliance.

Do you understand me,John?

Oh, yes, I understand.

I understand

you're a f***ing wacko

who likes to play

kid's games.

Hardly.

Hardly?

Then who are you,

somebody I sent up?

What did you do, shoplifting,

purse snatching...

cross-dressing, what?

You c-c-couldn't

catch me

if I stole your ch-chair

with you in it.

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Jonathan Hensleigh

Jonathan Blair Hensleigh (born February 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director, working primarily in the action-adventure genre, best known for writing films such as Jumanji, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and Armageddon, as well as making his own directorial debut with the 2004 comic book action film The Punisher. more…

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