A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)
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Critics Consensus: 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.
Critics Consensus: 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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John McClane (Bruce Willis) heads to Russia in this fifth installment of the Die Hard film series. Skip Woods (The A-Team) provides the script, with Max Payne's John Moore directing. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi- Rating:
- R (for violence and language)
- Genre:
- Action & Adventure
- Directed By:
- John Moore
- Written By:
- Roderick Thorp , Skip Woods
- In Theaters:
- Feb 14, 2013 Wide
- On DVD:
- Jun 4, 2013
- US Box Office:
- $67.3M
Cast
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Jai Courtney
as Jack McClane -
Bruce Willis
as John McClane -
Sebastian Koch
as Komorov -
Mary Elizabeth Winst...
as Lucy -
Yuliya Snigir
as Irina -
Cole Hauser
as Collins
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Critic Reviews for A Good Day To Die Hard
All Critics (211) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (181) | DVD (1)
This is the fifth and least of the Die Hard movies.
What a disappointment.
I didn't think it was physically possible to doze off at a movie as loud as A Good Day to Die Hard, but for a few moments my mind found some distant, peaceful refuge.
It's all more than a little silly, but Willis' presence at least provides undercurrents of easy jocularity.
For anyone who remembers the "Die Hard" adventures at their vital and exciting best, this film feels like a near-death experience.
Few fans of the series would disagree that this sclerotic fifth installment should probably be the last.
We'd all be better served if Die Hard would simply die already.
The final nail in the coffin for John McClane...
Don't let the title fool you. This should have starred Steven Seagal and gone straight to DVD.
The international location, political intrigue and 007 flourishes in [the] score all suggest a fundamental shift in the series-or ... a passing of the torch to McClane Jr.
This is clearly the worst entry in the franchise, a movie so lazy and dull that if you simply took the Die Hard out of the name, it might as well be Mercury Rising.
Once blithely acceptable as American id, McClane's become the archetypal American idiot. [Blu-ray]
A Good Day to Die Hard is the worst Die Hard yet; substituting loud, noisy and sloppily-filmed action for what used to be one of Bruce Willis' more entertaining roles.
This new entry to the Die Hard series features a seriously underdeveloped plot held together by stunt sequences that are as overblown as they are ridiculous.
The score by Marco Beltrami might suggest a mission impossible, but the movie's reality is more like a poor man's Wile E. Coyote-Road Runner cartoon...
A Good Day to Die Hard isn't just half-boring and indifferently made; at its worst, it's downright dispiriting.
Empty, ugly and dumb, a grim and cynical exercise in death and destruction.
The story devolves into little more than mindless action sequences in which the trills are cheap and the production values even cheaper.
There was something in the pre - CGI days that made McClane's character more vulnerable...and fun.
Undeniably entertaining action-movie franchise fodder [but] had the producers [made] Mary Elizabeth Winstead the film's other action hero rather than going with the convention of casting yet another male, Die Hard 5 would have been awesome.
A perfectly fine collection of ridiculous stunts and gratuitous explosions ruined by the addition of nonsensical plot and acting that appears to be submerged beneath weapons-grade painkillers.
When a Die Hard movie doesn't have a single well-staged action sequence, you know something went badly wrong.
Sees both franchise and character transformed into tragically unimaginative, cacophonously violent and embarrassingly unfunny shadows of their once great former selves.
Gone is the vulnerable, smart and resourceful hero of the original. He has instead been replaced by an unstoppable killing machine who - like a pull-string toy - sprouts irrelevant catch phrases like 'I'm on vacation!' in the middle of a fire fight.
You know you're in trouble when an action film opens in Moscow showing a Russian criminal being held prisoner in a cell playing chess by himself. This is the kind of obvious cheesy badly scripted trope A Good Day to Die Hard is rampantly infected with.
Audience Reviews for A Good Day To Die Hard
I cant believe I liked this movie the first time i saw it, probably because i was so excited for another die hard film that i was totally ignoring every little detail that made the movie bad and excepted it, but in the end its escapism but sadly there is no escape from this new chapter in the series, which should be titled Death of a Franchise. It's too fast-paced, the plot is always unclear, Jai Courtney and Bruce Willis have no chemistry what so ever and it feels like a season of 24 with John McClane as a backup character. The most memorable action sequence is near the conclusion and the ending is the only satisfying part of this film. A very rushed piece of work with no plausible villain and just takes a steaming dump of the franchise
MoreSuper Reviewer
Some people felt Live Free or Die Hard was a low point for the series, and that it really didn't fit in with the rest of the films. Who would have thought that it could have gotten worse. For the record, I like the fourth Die Hard film, despite its flaws and ridiculousness.
But yeah, what we have here is the true low point for the series. It's really not even a Die Hard film. Maybe just going by the name and the inclusion of John (and technically, Jack) McClane, but that's about it.
This is basically just a dumb, typical action movie that happens to have John McClane in it. He's not even really the focus.
The film has no real reasons for existing, but the plot our beloved McClane gets shoehorned into sees him going to Moscow to rescue (or so he thinks) his estranged imprisoned son, only to find himself caught up in a CIA mission to thwart terrorists bent on nuclear weapons based domination lead by none other than his own son.
Seriously. That's the plot. There's no reason for the older McClane to be here. He's not a cop in this one, just a tourist who happens to be an ass kicker.
They try to balance the action with a father/son dynamic, but it's not very original or compelling, and even the action is rather blah and uninspired. It's also executed and edited rather choppily, so I had no idea what was going on most of the time.
The film does mark a return to R rated territory, but it feels forced. The action is really just strong PG-13/very light R rated stuff, and yeah, there's some strong language, but it sticks out, and feels like they added just enough swearing to earn this an R rating just to appease fans.
The film's treatment of Russian culture, history, and geography, as well as it's portrayal of how nuclear radiation works (the climax is at Chernobyl), is all very shallow, annoying, and wrong.
Yeah, I basically hated this movie. This is a rare thing for me in general, but especially for something like this. There's really nothing all that spectacular here. Sure, I did enjoy the explosions, but that's just because I always find something to like with every movie I see, even dreadful crap like this.
Here's to hoping they finally end this series already, or at least redeem themselves drastically if they feel the need to make another one.
Super Reviewer
I didn't think much of Die Hard 4 but compared to this it was a masterpiece. It couldn't have felt less like a Die Hard film if it had replaced Bruce Willis with Melissa McCarthy. There were big scenes but not the certain special scene that all the other Die Hard films had. Just when you think they've done something good, like the nod to the first film where they throw Hans Gruber out of a window, the bad guy gets unnecessarily chopped up by a Helicopter. A clear case of too much of one thing and not enough of what matters. Die Hard 5 is somehow my 6th least favorite Die Hard film.
MoreSuper Reviewer
They should have stopped officially at 3 but although 4 was enjoyable its annoying directors milk a good idea and make it terrible.
This fifth installment is amusing and explosive but theresnot much to it to make it that awesome Action packed movie it was back in the 80's when the original began!
Super Reviewer
A Good Day To Die Hard Quotes
- John McClane:
- Need a hug?
- Jack McClane:
- Were not a hugging family.
- John McClane:
- Damn straight!
- John McClane:
- What is this? A pirate gun?
- Jack McClane:
- It's old school, man! Kinda like you, right?
- John McClane:
- Right.
- John McClane:
- I'm on vacation!
- Jack McClane:
- You always looking for trouble or is it always finds you?
- John McClane:
- All this years, I still asked myself the same question.
- John McClane:
- Knock Knock
- John McClane:
- Guess Who?
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