★★★★★ – Guardian. As Christmas parties go, few have gone more disastrously than the Nakatomi Corporation's 1988 shindig. NYPD cop John McClane finds his reunion with his estranged wife, Holly, interrupted by a hostage crisis.

“Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs” – as Christmas parties go, few have gone more disastrously than the Nakatomi Corporation’s 1988 shindig.

European terrorists have the worst sense of timing, as NYPD cop John McClane finds his reunion with his estranged wife, Holly, interrupted by a hostage crisis courtesy of gentleman villain Hans Gruber and his cohorts.