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A Good Day to Die Hard

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New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) arrives in Moscow to track down his estranged son, Jack (Jai Courtney). McClane thinks his son is a criminal, so it comes as a shock when he learns that Jack is actually working undercover to protect Komarov (Sebastian Koch), a Russian government whistleblower. With their own lives on the line, McClane and Jack must overcome their differences in order to get Komarov to safety and thwart a potentially disastrous crime in the Chernobyl region.
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A Good Day to Die Hard is the weakest entry in a storied franchise, and not even Bruce Willis' smirking demeanor can enliven a cliched, uninspired script.

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Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online 09/07/2017
D+
It makes you think that the previous movies, or the first three really great ones, were all just a fluke. Go to Full Review
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh metro.co.uk 09/01/2017
3/5
The action is spectacular but it's incoherently directed, so often you can't tell who's smashing what lorry/jeep/helicopter into what, let alone why. Go to Full Review
Jason Bailey Flavorwire 06/21/2016
It is, for anyone who loved the original films, an abomination. Go to Full Review
Don Shanahan Every Movie Has a Lesson 10/14/2024
2/5
The tired one-liners, smirks, yells, punches, cuts, bruises, and jokes are all here. Go to Full Review
Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies 08/19/2022
2/5
“A Good Day to Die Hard” is missing almost ever signature feature and clever nuance that has made this franchise great. Go to Full Review
Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review 08/18/2022
0.5/4
A Good Day to Die Hard fails not only to meet the requirements of an ample Die Hard sequel, but it also fails to be a watchable piece of mindless action. Go to Full Review
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Gregory S 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 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 ninja B @NinjabowlerYT Dec 15 This movie is the biggest piece of dog crap I have ever laid my eyes on. Not only did this move not need to happen, Not only does it fail to be so bad it's good, but it's probably the worst movie ever made. The fact that they didn't bother to put subtle on the Foreign speaking characters is an atrocity. Previous flims most notably Die hard 3: Die hard with a vengeance had subtle in it when characters were speaking in a foreign language. So why is there no subtles? The actions sences are bad most of the time it trys way too hard to be a different flim for the series for no reason and it shows that there was very little care put into this movie. By all means Necessary DONT WATCH THIS MOVIE! Not even if you watched the first 4 flims Chronologically you shouldn't watch this flim. If you do end up doing so be warned because your gonna get Insomia like I did watching this flim. See more Leaburn O Sep 21 It’s arguably better than the fourth instalment of the franchise. The directing and production is certainly better. The plot is equally flat but no one watches Die Hard for a tight and deep plot. The action is typically endless and the family coming together is a nice way to end the series. It is heavily cliched and some of the accents are awful. I’m not a raw action fan so I was pleased it was short. Watched on DVD. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis New York City cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) arrives in Moscow to track down his estranged son, Jack (Jai Courtney). McClane thinks his son is a criminal, so it comes as a shock when he learns that Jack is actually working undercover to protect Komarov (Sebastian Koch), a Russian government whistleblower. With their own lives on the line, McClane and Jack must overcome their differences in order to get Komarov to safety and thwart a potentially disastrous crime in the Chernobyl region.
Director
John Moore
Producer
Alex Young, Wyck Godfrey
Screenwriter
Skip Woods
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
Twentieth Century Fox, TSG Entertainment, Giant Pictures
Rating
R (Violence|Language)
Genre
Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 14, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 4, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$67.3M
Runtime
1h 38m
Sound Mix
Dolby, SDDS, Datasat
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