The Thomas Crown Affair

#6 in my Ranking of John McTiernan films. This movie is at its most entertaining when people are stealing things, art in particular. It's the story of a rich man who's always in search of thrills and decides to steal one of the most valuable pieces of art on display at the Met. He's fabulously…

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Last Action Hero

#3 in my Ranking of John McTiernan films. In order for deconstruction to really work, the one doing the deconstruction has to love the thing to begin with. They have to love it and know it inside and out so that they can invert everything within it and make the work essentially regard itself in…

Medicine Man

#9 in my Ranking of John McTiernan films. John McTiernan had just completed The Hunt for Red October, which gained plenty of accolades and quickly embraced as one of the finest submarine movies ever made. He seems to have been eager to move beyond simple action filmmaking and become serious, a trap many genre filmmakers…

Die Hard with a Vengeance

#2 in my ranking of the Die Hard franchise. #2 in my Ranking of John McTiernan films. Well, that's significantly better. Where Die Hard 2 felt like the laziest kind of sequel, Die Hard with a Vengeance feels really fresh in comparison. It's still following a lot of the basic formula from the first film…

Die Hard

#3 in my ranking of the Die Hard franchise. #4 in my Ranking of John McTiernan films. I've always wondered why I've liked this movie than what seems like the rest of the population, so going into this watching, I was determined to figure out why. I definitely figured it out, and it's a solid…