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Interceptor Proves An Under Siege Reboot Can Work (Without Steven Seagal)
The surprise success of Interceptor proved a modern take on Under Siege can work — even without Steven Seagal. Die Hard was a breath of fresh air for action cinema in the late '80s, as the genre had largely been dominated by the muscle-bound antics of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Action movies had become largely concerned with big body counts and making their heroes borderline indestructible, but Die Hard laid out a new blueprint. Bruce Willis' John McClane was a very human character with a receding hairline, a failing marriage and he bled — often quite heavily — when injured. The movie's structure of stranding an everyman hero in the middle of a siege also became a subgenre of its own.