A Good Day To Die Hard Reviews
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
There was something in the pre - CGI days that made McClane's character more vulnerable...and fun.
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| Original Score: C+
3AW
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Triple J
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Crikey
When a Die Hard movie doesn't have a single well-staged action sequence, you know something went badly wrong.
Moviedex
Sees both franchise and character transformed into tragically unimaginative, cacophonously violent and embarrassingly unfunny shadows of their once great former selves.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Aristocrat
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 He has instead been replaced by an unstoppable killing machine who - like a pull-string toy - sprouts irrelevant catch phrases like 'I'm on vacation!'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.
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| Original Score: 1/5
ABC Radio (Australia)
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Popcorn Junkie
Pushes the series deep into the trash heap
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| Original Score: 0.5/5
The Mercury
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"?
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
The Standard
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
Bruce Willis looked pretty tired by the end of the film. I know how he felt.
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| Original Score: C
Quickflix
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Urban Cinefile
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
Urban Cinefile
Excess and action supersede story ...It's a pity it's not such a good day after all
Movies.com
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Reel Film Reviews
The desecration of the Die Hard series continues with this shockingly underwhelming entry...
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Bloomberg News
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.
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| Original Score: *
