Revealing mistake: At the end of the chase scene with the Mercedes and the pickup truck, the Mercedes flips on its side and slams into a tree. As the Mercedes falls back onto its roof, you can see a rope attached to the trunk used to pull the Mercedes over.
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons, Graham Greene
Simon (Jeremy Irons) is Hans Gruber's brother (the leader of the terrorists in the first Die Hard movie). The bomb in the school was just to distract the NYPD while he robbed the central bank of all its gold. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson board the ship. Simon ties 'em up near a bomb. They escape and the ship goes kaboom. Willis, Jackson and the police catch Simon & friends at the Canadian border. Willis forces Gruber's helicopter into a a power line, killing him. "Yippie-kay-yay, motherf%#&er!"
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Trivia: When John is asked what he has done during his suspension from the police force he says "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo." This is a line he sings from the song "Flowers on the Wall" by the Statler Bros from the radio in Pulp Fiction just before he ran over Wallace. Appropriate, since Pulp Fiction falls neatly between Die Hard 2 and 3.
Question: In the bank, inside the lift, when John McClane is with the fake Detective Otto, what does he see in Detective Otto's badge that convinces him he is fake?
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Chosen answer: He sees the reflection of his friend's badge number that he remembered from their conversation about the lottery earlier, so knows the badge was taken from his dead friend.
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