A Good Day To Die Hard Reviews
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
Laramie Movie Scope
There is plenty of action in this film, but the characters are a bit sketchy. There is so much backstabbing and doublecrossing that you tend to lose patience with the story.
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| Original Score: C+
Mark Leeper's Reviews
has charm and promises more from the new filmmaker
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| Original Score: 6/10
Willamette Week
It's a decent action flick, but change a few characters' names and it's barely recognizable as a Die Hard movie.
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| Original Score: C+
7M Pictures
It was exactly what I expected from a fifth installment of a 25-year-old franchise that was released in February when all the other films dropped in the summer.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Topless Robot
And having spent all these words ragging on the film, I will continue to semi-recommend it anyway. Why? Well, I happen to like big dumb action, and as long as that's all you're expecting, that is a thing that you shall receive.
Tulsa World
The poster-child for the big, dumb action movie, but Bruce Willis as John McClane makes everything better.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Toledo Blade
Yes, it's a brain drain of a film, but its go-for-broke zeal is contagious and fun, mindless or otherwise.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Many critics have already determined that this Die Hard is a bad day at the cinema. For me, like so many modern action films, if you leave your brain at the door, you may leave Russia with love.
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| Original Score: 5/10
Tri-City Herald
Suspension of reality is a must. But that's Die Hard, and this Die Hard die hard fans won't love but won't hate either.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Action-junkies' delight: blazing bullets, car crashes, perpetual motion. What, you were expecting dialogue and plot?
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| Original Score: B
Contactmusic.com
There really is no point in looking for logic in a fifth Die Hard movie; these films have become a parody of themselves, wallowing in their inane action set pieces and sassy one-liners without much concern for plot or coherence.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sun Online
It's great to see Willis back in the role that suits him most.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Mail [UK]
On any serious level, it's deplorable, but it's so macho a vision of old age that it becomes quaintly enjoyable.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Mania.com
It ain't perfect, but it sure finds a way to get the job done.
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| Original Score: B
Top CriticIt's all more than a little silly, but Willis' presence at least provides undercurrents of easy jocularity.
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| Original Score: B-
EntertainmentTell
It's fun, but ultimately inconsequential, and doesn't feel especially like a "Die Hard" movie
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| Original Score: 3/5
Unnecessary but not unwatchable, this maintains a brisk pace as it moves through the familiar action set pieces, most of them decently orchestrated.
A quarter-century after it began, A Good Day to Die Hard continues the franchise without undue embarrassment.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Willis and Courtney make a strong match, believable both as fractious family members and also as sarcastic adversaries forced by circumstances to work together.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
