A Good Day to Die Hard

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Chris S @Janomi Aug 10 A Good Day to Die Hard has a few bright spots, mostly because Bruce Willis still has occasional flashes of John McClane’s sarcasm and toughness. There are moments where you can see the attitude that made the character iconic, even if the movie around him rarely captures what made the earlier films work. The father-son angle has potential. Pairing McClane with his son could have been a strong emotional direction and a way to explore the cost of his dangerous life. Jai Courtney gives Jack a capable physical presence, but the relationship never develops into anything especially memorable. The Russia setting changes the scenery, and the car chase, explosions, and large-scale action provide some surface-level spectacle. The problem is that the story, villains, and twists are forgettable. McClane feels far removed from the vulnerable everyman of the original, making this easily the weakest entry in the series. See more Kau M @KauaMiguel Jun 8 This movie is an insult to the franchise. It doesn't have as much idiotic dialogue as its predecessor because it barely has any dialogue at all. What it does have are unrestrained, idiotic action scenes that completely distort the franchise. They had an interesting opportunity here with his sons to end the franchise very well, but they chose to deliver a bad script to a terrible director. But even so, in the midst of this sea of ​​awfulness, I can still have fun with some of the action sequences. See more Gregory S @Gregory566 Jan 1 I am all of ludicrous speed, but this one took things to a whole new level. It went with Fast and Furious a truly terrible way. Even worse then what the FF franchise ended up doing. See more Ola G @Ollie1972 Dec 28 This sad fifth (!) and thank god final installment in the Die Hard franchise lacks everything the first two great films and partly the third film have. The script is so dumbed down and uninspired your brain hurts. A. O. Scott of The New York Times hits the nail on the head by saying, "everything that made the first Die Hard memorable—the nuances of character, the political subtext, the cowboy wit—has been dumbed down or scrubbed away entire". John McClane has literally become a superhero that survives the most far-fetched action sequences you can imagine. The helicopter sequence is by far the dumbest... This should never have been made to my mind and I guess Bruce Willis did this one only for the money set for the future and his unfortunate retirement. See more Jason W @Thejasonwatts Dec 18 Someone had a pretty generic foreigners vs americans shoot em up spy movie idea with a terrible script, so they added John McClane in there, added a son and called it a Die Hard film. The color treatment annoyed me along with the weird city scape zooms. Bruce Willis was the was only reason the watch. See more Zane T @ZaneThind Dec 15 While it's clearly the weakest of the 5 films, it's still a fun buddy cop movie. See more Read all reviews

A Good Day to Die Hard

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