Die Hard (DVD 2002)

Bruce Willis is the New York cop John McClain. When visting LA he ends up right in the middle of a terrorist plot, led by Hans Gruber played by, the magnificent, Alan Rickman.
Hostages are taken, including Mclanes wife and the New York Cop is their only hope of survival.
This was the first of four movies, so far, in this series and is possibly the best, you'll love it, as long as a lot of swearing and violence doesn't upset you too much !
YIPAKIYAY MF.... as John might say!

A hi-tech thriller with a human heart, offering slam-bang entertainment on a par with Lethal Weapon or Aliens. On Christmas Eve, visiting New York cop McClane (Willis) enters the high-rise LA office block where his estranged wife works, not realising that it has already being taken over by sadistic smoothie Hans Gruber (Rickman) and his ruthless terrorists. Inside the building, having taken wife (Bedelia) and celebrating colleagues hostage, the gang tries to crack open the Nakotomi corporation's computerised vault; outside, LA cops and FBI agents squabble over jurisdiction, while opportunistic TV reporters gather like jackals; it's up to McClane, having established a chance radio link with a passing patrolman (Veljohnson), to use the building's 39 empty floors, lift shafts, and heating ducts to improvise diversionary tactics. McTiernan excels in the adrenalin-inducing action scenes, staging the murderous mayhem and state-of-the-art violence as if he were born with a camera in one hand and a rocket launcher in the other