What if you did Die Hard, decades after we were assaulted with a slate of Die Hard ripoffs, on a network television budget, starring the guy from The Wheel of Time? You get “Ex Parte”, a hostage situation made all the more perilous by one of the captives being Simmons’ wife. Come for the derivative plotting and stay for the confusing politics. Also, will Simmons get a new cell phone? He will if his freakin’ wife has anything to say about it!