It has been nearly four decades since John McTiernan's Die Hard (1988) helped to redefine the American action movie, and since then there have been so many Die Hard's on or in a Fill-in-the-Blank that any reasonable person would lose count. The good ones, like Jan De Bont's Speed (1994)'”or Die Hard on a Bus'”had enough originality and ingenuity to make us forget the comparison. The lesser ones, like Peter Hyams's Sudden Death (1995)'”or Die Hard in a Hockey Arena'”wore their copycat status a little too obviously.