A Good Day to Die Hard Review

Die Hard was released in 1988 and became an overnight success, it even spawned four sequels. The newest installation into the franchise is A Good Day to Die Hard and it's...average. The movie opens up in Russia where John McClane's son Jack is arrested for killing to man. John heads over to the former Soviet Republic to see if he can do anything. And like every other Die Hard, sh*t hits the fan pretty quickly. While on trial an explosion goes off freeing Jack and another political prisoner being tried. The men behind the explosion are there for him. You learn Jack is actually CIA who's job is to extract this man because he is believed to have evidence that a high ranking government official was behind the meltdown at Chernobyl. With some unwanted help from John, Jack is able to get out of there. Now the father son duo has to work together to get a file with the evidence in it. But being a Die Hard movie, it's never that simple. A Good Day to Die Hard isn't the worst movie in the series, but it's a long ways from the best. The problem with it is that it doesn't feel like a real Die Hard movie, it's just a perfectly forgettable action movie. The series has never been know for outstanding writing, but there are some stupid lines in this movie. John and Jack had no chemistry as father and son, Jack spent half the movie complaining that his dad was never there for him when he was a kid; all he does is whine. The acting in this movie is sub par, other than Willis (John) no one gives a decent performance. John McClane use to be a regular guy in sticky situations, but like the forth movie they just turn him into a super hero which is wrong for his character. Another problem would be that there is no central villain, each Die Hard movie has one main villain and his henchman. In this movie there's like four and none are very good. The story is also kind of confusing, it's just all over the place and a lot of things happen they don't really explain. The movie also seems to defy logic and physics in several places, a lot of things just don't add up. And the amount of green screen in this movie is pretty ridiculous, and they just throw explosions at us for no reason hoping it entertains us. I like Die Hard, I have the entire series on DVD; but this movie is a disappointment. If you want to go see a movie this weekend I'd suggest going to see some of the Oscar nominees, A Good Day to Die Hard is just a sub par action movie. If you really want to see it just wait until it's in the dollar theater. 2/5