Die Hard (Remake)

Die Hard is an American action film and a remake of the 1988 film of the same name.

Plot
NYPD detective Jack McClane (Ben Affleck) flies to Los Angeles on New Year's Eve to visit his estranged wife Lucy (Anne Hathaway), who uses her maiden name Gennaro, at the headquarters of of the Japanese Nakatomi Corporation, the Nakatomi Plaza skyscraper, where she works. After limo driver Argyle (Anthony Anderson) drops him off, Jack meets Lucy as well as her boss Joseph Takagi and her smarmy co-worker, Harry Ellis. Still feeling out of sorts after his flight (as Jack hates flying) Jack decides to practice an idea another passenger told him about; walking around with his bare feet curled up, and is surprised to find it works.

Several stories below, a truck pulls up inside of the parking garage and twelve men climb out of the back; Franco, Theo, Alex, Marco, Kristof, Eddie, Ulich, Heinrich, Fritz, James, Karl and his brother Tony, are led inside by German Hans Gruber (Christoph Waltz). After killing the lobby staff, the gang heads up the party via the elevator, storming in and taking the guests hostage. Jack avoids detection and escapes, with only his service pistol and no shoes.

Gruber escorts Takagi to another room and interrogates him, wanting to know the access code to a large vault in the building. Takagi is confused as the vault contains only $640 million in bearer bonds, something which terrorists would have no interest in. Gruber explains that they mean only to steal the money, with terrorism as a cover. When Takagi refuses to cooperate, with Jack secretly watching from afar, Gruber coldly executes him.

Jack soon encounters Tony, taking the criminal at gunpoint, but they end up getting into a struggle and take a fall down a flight of stairs, breaking Tony's neck. Wrapping some decorative lights around his corpse, Jack places Tony in the elevator and sends it down to the party floor, with it the message "Now I have a machine gun!" alerting the villains to Jack's presence and his new weapon.

Jack uses Tony's radio to call the LAPD, who mistake it for a prank call, but decide to send Sergeant Al Powell (Don Cheadle), who is buying twinkies for his pregnant wife at a nearby convenience store, to investigate. He asks at reception but is actually met by Eddie, who informs him everything is fine, satisfying him. Upstairs, Jack runs into Marco, who pretends to surrender by putting his hands in the air and screaming in German, preventing Jack from shooting him. However, it is part of a trap, as Heinrich runs up behind him and tries to shoot Jack as Marco drops to the floor, but Jack manages to fatally shoot Heinrich. Jack takes cover under a nearby table while Marco empties his gun trying to shoot him. As he stands on the table reloading, Marco mocks Jack for hesitating to kill him, only to be suddenly shot from beneath the table.

Jack makes it to the window and sees Powell getting ready to drive away, so he throws Marco's body through the window and it collides with Powell's car. The guards in the lobby try to shoot Powell as he drives away and alerts the LAPD, who surround the tower. At a nearby news station, reporter Richard Thornbug also receives the call and gets a news truck to take to the tower and investigate.

A SWAT team assembles to retake the building, but James and Alex fire at them with rocket launchers. Seeing the danger that the SWAT team is in, Jack jumps into action, taking a bag of C-4 explosives he retrieved from Marco, and throws them down a shaft, the ensuing explosion killing James and Alex and allowing SWAT to get to safety. Jack contacts Gruber over the radio and mocks and insults him, but Gruber warns him that he is simply a fool who watches too many cowboy movies. Jack replies with "Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker."

In the foyer, Lucy has deduced that the man the criminals are after is Jack. Ellis gets fed up and approaches Gruber, offering to try and speak to Jack and negociate with him over the radio. Jack insists that this was the first night that he even met Ellis, while Ellis fails to see that Gruber plans to kill him if he fails. Ellis tries to convince Jack to give himself up but to no avail while Jack tries to explain to him that Gruber is cold and ruthless. Fed up with Ellis wasting his time, Gruber calmly snaps his neck.

Everyone on the ground is shocked, and Gruber is prompted to adress the police. He makes up false demands to have various terrorists released from prisons across the world. Jack and Powell don't buy the story and think something else is up. Soon, the FBI arrive to take control of the situation. Inside the building, Gruber goes to the mechanical room just below the roof to expect the C-4 which his comrades had previously planted there when the took the tower. However, Jack stole the detonators when he killed Marco. Unexpectedly, he is found by Jack, who doesn't know who he is, so fakes an American accent and pretends to be an escaped hostage. Jack catches on and gives him a gun, trying to get him to reveal his plan for the C-4, but Gruber tries to shoot him, only to find that the gun is empty. Before Jack can arrest or kill Gruber, Karl, Fritz and Franco arrive in the elevator. They chase Jack into a nearby office, where Jack shoots Fritz to death and sends Franco crashing through a pane of glass, cutting his throat, before running out of ammo. Gruber recognizes that Jack is barefoot and has Karl shoot out the glass. Jack escapes under the cover of a flash grenade but cuts his feet badly while doing so, and leaves the detonators behind.

Thornbug arrives at the McClane house, having done some background research, and escorts the children down to the tower. He interviews them on live TV asking their parents to come home safe. Gruber realises that Lucy is Jack's wife and takes her.