Nothing good comes out of “A Good Day to Die Hard.” Even as
a not-so-hardcore general fan of the “Die Hard” franchise I can spot a lame
entry when I see one. You’d be well advised to spend your money on literally
anything else: groceries, cat food, a bus ticket, hiring a hit on whoever
thought this movie was a good idea, etc. It’s not so much that it’s a bad “Die Hard”
movie, it’s really just the fact that it’s a bad movie in general. It’s story unnecessarily
complex, not interesting, and worst of all just plain generic and unmemorable.
You can forgive the Die Hard films for not being exactly plausible; that’s not
the point. These movies achieve such a state of ridiculousness you wonder how
anyone could have conceived of them in the first place. Here, we get a poor
excuse to have Bruce Willis killing bad guys in Russia. It doesn’t quite feel
like a Die Hard film and I’m convinced the story probably never started out as
one in the first place.
The film opens with lots of Russian characters talking in
Russian. We patiently await any sign of John McClane, the tough, rugged New
York cop who’s killed lots of bad guys in four previous films. When he finally
shows up there’s not much fanfare. It’s hardly a hero’s entrance; just him shooting
at some paper targets. He goes over to Russia to help out his adult, estranged
son, who’s been arrested there. They haven’t talked in years. Turns out the guy
has been working deep undercover cause he’s in the CIA. Almost immediately the
two butt heads and are constantly bickering. John’s son Jack (played by Jai
Courtney, who’s neither charismatic nor all that likeable, which are exactly
the two qualities this role requires) calls his father “John” instead of dad,
which is what usually happens in movies about estranged fathers and sons. And
it will take shooting lots of bad guys and jumping out of windows to bring
these two closer together. Shouldn’t this movie have been released on Father’s
Day instead of Valentine’s Day? But I digress.
When I wasn’t bored watching incomprehensible story elements
or not that shocking character reveals or forced and lame attempts at humor, I was
looking at my phone wondering when it would all end. But what about the action
sequences? I mean honestly, no one watches a Die Hard movie for its character
development, right? The action is ok, but is nothing earth shattering, which is
exactly what’s required in the fifth entry of a long running action series. You
must one up the previous entries, of which the last one featured a car leaping
into the air and crashing into a helicopter. How do you beat that? Well I guess
you can’t really. This one features McClane driving a truck off a bridge and
driving on top of mack trucks and crushing cars. It’s decent, but the whole
chase sequence is so shoddily edited, I couldn’t quite figure out who was where
and in what vehicle. And worst of all,
there’s no memorable bad guy. I remembered he ate carrots, and that’s about it.
How did this movie end up as such garbage? There are
answers. Director John Moore, who hardly has a good movie on his resume, had
previously made the Max Payne movie and The Omen remake. That sort of makes sense. And then you find
out that screenwriter Skip Woods has previously written X-Men Origins:
Wolverine and The A-Team. Ah ha. Even the editor has worked on purely bad
movies like Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem. Bingo. There’s an important lesson
to be learned here. A group of filmmakers who haven’t previously made a very
good movie, will therefore most likely not make a very good fifth Die Hard
movie. See it and tell me you don’t agree. I think it’s a good day to end this
franchise for good. GRADE: D
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