The film was a well-meaning, but often misguided effort that had confusing and mixed messages about male superiority, the exploitation of Mexican workers, and racial equality (for both blacks in the Maryland sequences, and Hispanics in the Texas sequences).]When first unwrapped, revived, and slowly defrosted and awakened from a long deep-freeze sleep after a botched surgery, Miles struggled to learn to walk.He stops on the steps of the building and straightens his tie.She masks herself and ducks behind a news-stand as he stops o buy a paper.She follows him - they both proceed down subway station steps, along with jam-packed throngs of other pedestrians.She reprimands his behavior in an angry torrent of words: "I can tell you, I didn""t like your exhibition tonight.McClane confronted Mai Linh in the control room, and engaged in an extended martial-arts fight and life-and-death struggle with her ("That""s enough of this kung-fu shit") - he eventually killed her when she was trapped in a vehicle that crashed in a fireball down an elevator shaft, after he had eliminated the remainder of her henchmen.