A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)

All Critics (200) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (170)

What a disappointment.

February 18, 2013 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper.com

Top Critic

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.

February 15, 2013 Full Review

David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

It's all more than a little silly, but Willis' presence at least provides undercurrents of easy jocularity.

February 14, 2013 Full Review

Chris Vognar

Dallas Morning News

Top Critic

For anyone who remembers the "Die Hard" adventures at their vital and exciting best, this film feels like a near-death experience.

February 14, 2013 Full Review

Joe Morgenstern

Wall Street Journal

Top Critic

Few fans of the series would disagree that this sclerotic fifth installment should probably be the last.

February 14, 2013 Full Review

Dana Stevens

Slate

Top Critic

This is the Magpie School of action filmmaking: Anytime things start to make so little sense that you might lose the audience, just throw something shiny up on screen to distract.

February 14, 2013 Full Review

Ian Buckwalter

NPR

Top Critic

The story devolves into little more than mindless action sequences in which the trills are cheap and the production values even cheaper.

May 13, 2013 Full Review

Al Alexander

The Patriot Ledger

There was something in the pre - CGI days that made McClane's character more vulnerable...and fun.

April 25, 2013 Full Review

Bruce Bennett

Spectrum (St. George, Utah)

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.

April 12, 2013 Full Review

Jim Schembri

3AW

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.

April 8, 2013 Full Review

Marc Fennell

Triple J

When a Die Hard movie doesn't have a single well-staged action sequence, you know something went badly wrong.

March 27, 2013 Full Review

Luke Buckmaster

Crikey

Sees both franchise and character transformed into tragically unimaginative, cacophonously violent and embarrassingly unfunny shadows of their once great former selves.

March 27, 2013 Full Review

Tom Clift

Moviedex

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.

March 25, 2013 Full Review

Adam Ross

The Aristocrat

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.

March 25, 2013 Full Review

CJ Johnson

ABC Radio (Australia)

Pushes the series deep into the trash heap

March 23, 2013 Full Review

Cameron Williams

The Popcorn Junkie

Remember those Mr Magoo cartoons where the doddery old bald guy would blunder around various locations, leaving chaos in his wake while constantly insisting "I'm on vacation"?

March 23, 2013 Full Review

Tim Martain

The Mercury

It would be a shame if this is John McClane's final bow, but on the strength of this effort, maybe it's time for him to hang up the machine gun.

March 21, 2013 Full Review

Matt Neal

The Standard

Bruce Willis looked pretty tired by the end of the film. I know how he felt.

March 19, 2013 Full Review

Matthew Toomey

ABC Radio Brisbane

The Nakatomi Plaza has never felt so far away. Die Hard is my favourite film. I only attended AGDTDH as a sombre obligation; like a relative being asked to identify a corpse.

March 19, 2013 Full Review

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

Yippee-ki-NAY

March 18, 2013 Full Review

Tom Glasson

Concrete Playground

It's a shame John McClane - one of cinema's iconic characters - has to go out with a whimper. His creators and handlers just didn't know how to close the book

March 15, 2013 Full Review

Andrew L. Urban

Urban Cinefile

Excess and action supersede story ...It's a pity it's not such a good day after all

March 15, 2013 Full Review

Louise Keller

Urban Cinefile

The Big Whocares-ski.

March 7, 2013 Full Review

Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

If only the people in charge had simply not involved Willis in it, not decided to call it a Die Hard movie, not set up my hopes for something more than gut-level, oomph-ish satisfaction, I wouldn't have felt so empty and disappointed when it was over.

March 6, 2013 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

The fact that A Good Day to Die Hard returns the Die Hard series to its R-rated roots doesn't change the fact that this latest entry is pretty dire.

March 6, 2013 Full Review

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The desecration of the Die Hard series continues with this shockingly underwhelming entry...

March 3, 2013 Full Review

David Nusair

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