The Die Hard series went on hiatus between 1995 and 2007 once the awful Die Hard With A Vengeance (that dopey one with John McClane playing Simon Says with the Riddler) demonstrated no-one was very sure how to keep the series fresh, so in the downtime Bruce Willis decided to star in this 2005 movie adaptation of a Robert Crais book about a hostage situation in a smaller Nakatomi Plaza - the family home of a rich mob accountant - that needs a John McClane (reluctant hero cop Jeff Talley, upon whom family members' lives depend) and like the Die Hard sequels, it is overthought and nowhere near as good as the original Die Hard.
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