A Good Day to Die Hard
Aging detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) is faced with the challenge of helping his estranged son, Jack (Jai Courtney), a rough and tumble type who’s just been picked up for murder of a political figure in Russia. As it turns out, Jack is actually a C.I.A. agent working undercover to rescue a former Uranium thief, Komarov (Sebastian Koch). As father and son reunite chaos ensues, things blow up, and the double crossing begins. Staying alive, stopping the bad guys, and saving the day must commence, easier said than done.
Completely ridiculous in its premise, predictable in its twists; and, even more over the top in the thrills, chills, and spills department. So basically, what was never a believable franchise just got even harder to believe. Have we as an audience really gotten so desensitized to a good ole car chase that action has to be ramped up to such derisory proportions? Tough to say. What can be said is that overly sentimental scenes between Willis and Courtney are uncomfortably sappy, and dialogue otherwise is so skull jarringly bad, the prognosis doesn’t look good for this patient—Die Hard is D.O.A.? But hey, big explosions, big guns, and big stunts sure do give it that half witted college try. A Good Day to Die Hard is rated R.