Die Hard (1988)

Been over three decades since I'd last seen this. These days it's considered a modern classic and obscure Christmas movie. I once thought the Christmas movie claim was reaching but it's a strong reoccurring theme throughout.

Interesting twist of genre. It's a heist movie with the protagonist being a wild-card NYC detective who aims to subvert the brilliant masterplan and its architect, Hans Gruber.  Hans is an educated Englishman turned high level burglar, posing as a German(?) terrorist leader. It gives you a hero and an anti-hero to root for. The robbers are well drilled, resilient hackers using the building's modern security features against their creators. There's a Hitchcock style gaze where the observer is incited to notice the details and try to anticipate how the hero could prevail in this conflict.

The intruder team is an Ocean's Eleven style troupe with a man for every task.

Huge influence on Inception. Limo driver is the inspiration of Johnny Cab driver from Total Recall and later 

Also the Matrix trilogy is inspired by this world. In many ways it seems like The Matrix tries to one-up the stunts and complexities of this movie. Mimicry at this level is surely high praise.