Die Hard With A Vengeance

BBC1, 11.45pm, Tuesday

The third film in the franchise sees loose-cannon cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) return to duty following an explosion at a New York City department store.

The perpetrator, who calls himself Simon (Jeremy Irons), contacts the police and tells them that unless McClane and bystander Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson), who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, carry out a series of instructions, more bombs will be detonated.

Not up to the standards of the original, and not quite as festive, but it’s still a lot of fun.

(Showing at 10.45pm in England)