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A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)

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Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 199
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 169

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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Average Rating: 3.7/10
Critic Reviews: 43
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 39

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

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Skip Woods, Roderick Thorp

Jun 4, 2013

$67.3M

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All Critics (199) | Top Critics (43) | Fresh (30) | Rotten (169)

What a disappointment.

February 18, 2013 Full Review Source: Richard Roeper.com
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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 Source: New York Magazine
New York Magazine
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It's all more than a little silly, but Willis' presence at least provides undercurrents of easy jocularity.

February 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News
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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 Source: Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal
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Few fans of the series would disagree that this sclerotic fifth installment should probably be the last.

February 14, 2013 Full Review Source: Slate
Slate
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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 Source: NPR
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There was something in the pre - CGI days that made McClane's character more vulnerable...and fun.

April 25, 2013 Full Review Source: Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
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 Source: 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 Source: Triple J
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 Source: 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 Source: Moviedex
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 Source: The Aristocrat
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 Source: ABC Radio (Australia)
ABC Radio (Australia)

Pushes the series deep into the trash heap

March 23, 2013 Full Review Source: The Popcorn Junkie
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 Source: The Mercury
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 Source: The Standard

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

March 19, 2013 Full Review Source: ABC Radio Brisbane
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 Source: Quickflix
Quickflix

Yippee-ki-NAY

March 18, 2013 Full Review Source: Concrete Playground
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 Source: Urban Cinefile
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 Source: Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile

The Big Whocares-ski.

March 7, 2013 Full Review Source: East Bay Express
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 Source: Movies.com
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 Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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

March 3, 2013 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews
Reel Film Reviews

Loud with nothing to say, "Good Day" joins recent duds from Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a trifecta of pointless wallows in '80s action nostalgia.

February 28, 2013 Full Review Source: Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News

Audience Reviews for A Good Day To Die Hard

An adrenaline-drenched and spectacular edge of your seat action-packed thriller. A slam-bang, pulse-quickening and relentlessly enjoyable roller-coaster ride that you wont want to get out of. It delivers some of the best action yet, showing some great gun battles, insane explosions and including one of the best car chase sequences ever filmed. It's nothing but a non-stop joy-ride of an action movie. A mind-blowing and eye-popping ride that's jammed with explosive action and heart-pounding suspense. Bruce Willis is back, giving a strong performance and showing his character has regret and vulnerability but still knows how to kick-ass and save the day. Jai Courtney is terrific. Courtney and Willis have great chemistry and standby one another perfectly in their performances and in the action scenes. They have some great moments to add some meat to their characters. I loved this flick, it has alot to offer and makes some great references to the original film. From the start to it's satisfying and explosive conclusion, this movie just rocks.
October 28, 2012
allan913

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The Die Hard franchise has always appealed to be because of just how silly and action packed they are, and A Good Day to Die Hard is no exception; the newest addition to the McClane saga differs quite a bit in tone compared to the others, but it suffers no loss. Amazing action, funny dialogue, great chemistry, and some over the top stunts make this good day for Die Hard, and for Bruce Willis, who has yet to lose his charm as John McClane.
April 5, 2013
Nick Dohy

Super Reviewer

    1. John McClane: What is this? A pirate gun?
    2. Jack McClane: It's old school, man! Kinda like you, right?
    3. John McClane: Right.
    – Submitted by Dan E (12 days ago)
    1. John McClane: I'm on vacation!
    – Submitted by Jacklord Alan K (52 days ago)
    1. Jack McClane: You always looking for trouble or is it always finds you?
    2. John McClane: All this years, I still asked myself the same question.
    – Submitted by Sephia R (2 months ago)
    1. John McClane: Knock Knock
    – Submitted by Steven P (2 months ago)
    1. John McClane: Guess Who?
    – Submitted by Steven P (2 months ago)
    1. John McClane: Yipee-Ki-Yay Mother Fuckers!
    – Submitted by sam v (2 months ago)

Discussion Forum

Topic Last Post Replies
Who Would Make a Perfect Die Hard Villain? 9 days ago 19
JOHN WOO for DIE HARD 6 10 days ago 2
ALEX MAVERICK SUCKS!!! 3 hours ago 73
Come on, it wasn't THAT bad 15 days ago 1
Matthew Preston = Dumbfuck 15 days ago 20

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