NOKW - Die Hard 3

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Die Hard With A Vengeance

Basic Plot:  It's the third installment of the Die Hard Franchise and of the five movies, I would easily rank it second behind the original.  This time John McClane and Samuel L. Jackson match wits with Hans Gruber's brother played by Scar from The Lion King and his German minions.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that the script for this movie was originally written to be a Lethal Weapon sequel and Samuel L. Jackson's character was supposed to a woman but that fell through and instead they made Jackson's character the Murtaugh to McClane's Riggs.  The fact that it took so long for those large black guys to notice McClane walking around with that derogatory sign around his neck.  The fact that the first few times I saw this movie, I thought when Simon was calling Zeus a 'Samaritan' he was referring to a racial slur and not actually just complimenting him.  The fact that this is the only movie in which McClane is actually within his jurisdiction.  The fact that the phone number 555-0001 was still available for Simon to use in one of his puzzles that he makes McClane and Zeus solve.  The fact that the cops weren't able to trace that same number back to Simon somehow.  The fact that none of the cops figured out that they should have left more cops at the site of a subway explosion and the world's largest gold reserve.  The fact that Zeus accompanied McClane and the rest of the police force to arrest Simon in Canada even though he is not a cop and has no real reason to be there considering he is recovering from injuries he sustained earlier.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that when McClane is blown out of that maintenance tunnel Samuel L. Jackson just so happens to be driving by and actually spots McClane flying out.  If you don't remember, McClane follows the bad guys into an aqueduct and when they find out he is there, they blow the dam and flood the tunnel with McClane still inside.  After the tunnel starts flooding, McClane finds a construction shaft to escape from and as the water pressure rises, he is blown out of the shaft and onto to the side of a road.  Meanwhile, Zeus went to Yankee Stadium for some reason and after leaving there he is randomly driving around when he happens to drive by the exact spot that McClane comes flying out of and just so happens to see his body in a large spray of water.  The odds of him driving by that exact spot are just astronomically ridiculous.  I did look it up and the tunnel that McClane was in does travel near Yankee Stadium, but that still doesn't make any sense as to how Zeus happened along the one construction shaft that McClane shot out of just as he was shooting out of it.  I am not okay with that.

"Now just imagine that being Mel Gibson and Danny Glover instead."