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Die Hard: With a Vengeance

1995 · directed by John McTiernan · 128 min
22,946 feet · Prominence
1,439th of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw76

Lifetime worldwide gross $366m, re-releases included; about $793m in 2026 money.

Rank298 of 11,051In 19952 of 192

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise59

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics59 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy45

Judged directly: The jug puzzle is still referenced.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb7.6 from 429kWikipedia36k views a monthAge31 years

Scored beside it · 1,430 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 76 praise 59 legacy 45averages 60, placing it at22,946 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Larry Bryggman

In these careers — elevation for this film

Samuel L. Jackson19,954 ftBruce Willis19,884 ftJeremy Irons19,232 ftGraham Greene17,984 ftLarry Bryggman17,888 ft