A Good Day to
Die Hard must have seemed like a great idea to the producers. After all,
who wouldn’t think: what’s better than McClane, our lone hero, going after bad
guys? Well, the producers thought, “Two McClanes going after bad guys.” The sad
part is that the movie’s plot is so lame, stupid, and out of place. The two
didn’t look like heroes going through hell and doing the impossible
(McClane-style) to take down the bad guys. Instead, it ended up looking like
two Looney Tunes characters surviving impossible incidents—like falling off a
skyscraper, surviving truck crashes and chases, and gas explosions. I couldn’t
help but wonder what the director was thinking.
John Moore, the
director, and Skip Woods, the screenplay writer, placed our favorite hero in an
unfamiliar environment: Russia, where he’s a complete stranger. Bruce Willis
reprises the lead role of John McClane, who travels to Russia to help his
estranged son, Jack (Jai Courtney), out of prison. Once there, McClane
discovers there’s more to his son’s imprisonment than he was led to believe,
and soon he’s caught in the crossfire of a terrorist plot.
So, he went all
“Yippee ki-yay,” Looney Tunes-style, in Russia.
The
cinematography is below average, and the action and directing scenes are so
far-fetched that they barely pass as an A-movie production. As a viewer, you’re
forced into an uncomfortable position, enduring it all just to hear McClane
say, “Yippee ki-yay, motherfu@#er.”
The movie did
have a twist that I didn’t see coming, but it wasn’t enough to save the film.
This movie is the shortest of all the Die Hard films, and if, like
me, you remember our lone cowboy-like hero running around barefoot and
single-handedly taking down the formidable Hans Gruber and his crew in the
first movie—or landing planes in the second, facing Simon Gruber in the third,
or battling Timothy Olyphant in the fourth—then you’ll hate this weak, cowardly
villain and probably the movie itself.
After Expendables
2 (2012), our old heroes decided to make a comeback. Arnold Schwarzenegger
starred in The Last Stand (2013), and Sylvester Stallone in Bullet
to the Head (2013). Many, like me, looked forward to seeing these films.
Now that I have, only Schwarzenegger’s movie is worth applauding.
This latest Die Hard addition is poor and doesn’t hold a candle to the others. Only die-hard John McClane fans can survive watching it. It’s a disappointing entry in a franchise that once set the standard for action films.
Awesome review. Just avoid this movie. I mean, your money can go towards far better things, like say the original Die Hard films on Blu Ray? Sounds like a neat-o idea to me.
ReplyDeleteWell said Sir, avoid this movie if you love John McClane
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