Movie Review: A good day to die hard

Boom (Thatâ€™s about it)

I had a lot of hope for this one. Who doesn’t want to see Bruce Willis as the hardened cop John McClane blow his way through everything and end up blowing the antagonist as well while in the background everything is on fire thanks to all the prior explosions?

As it turns out, A Good Day to Die Hard gets completely derailed from its tracks, or rather, there were no tracks to even begin with. With an almost non existent plot line this film shows why you shouldn’t further stretch an already creatively-exhausted franchise.

McClane has to save his son from some Russian baddies. And that is the entire plot. At any given moment, the screen is lit up with exploding cars, helicopters, gunfire and just general chaos without giving the audience any reason to emotionally or intellectually invest in any of it.

The script by Skip Woods (Swordfish) is incoherent and the direction by John Moore (Max Payne) is a jumble.

The greatest fault of the film is that it erases all possible traces of what made the Die Hard series so exciting in the first place - the cowboy wit, the political undertones and the nuances of the characters, and reduces it to only implausible action sequences. It is perhaps time for the franchise to die hard.

Director: John Moore

Cast: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Yuliya Snigir, Radivoje Bukvic, Cole Hauser

Rating:

2/10

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