Variety
Generally speaking, the action elements aren't the problem here. They're certainly loud enough. It's the obligatory intra-family squabbling and preposterous plotting that threaten to derail this nonsensical sequel.
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A Good Day to Die Hard
Bruce Willis returns as hard-assed cop John McClane in this fifth entry to the Die Hard series. McClane heads to Russia to help his estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney, Jack Reacher) – a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a crooked politician with links to weapons-grade uranium. From the director of Max Payne and the screenwriter of The A-Team.
Proving that a talent for being in the wrong place at the wrong time runs in the family, the younger McClane is in Russian custody charged with an assassination. John travels to Moscow to help his son and discovers he's stumbled into the middle of a CIA operation. The two generations of McClane find themselves up against a heavily armed network of Eastern badasses and will have to patch up enough of their differences to do what they do best - leave a trail of bodies in their wake.
2013Rating: M, contains violence and offensive language98 minsUSA
Action
- Director:
- John Moore ('Max Payne', 'Flight of the Phoenix', 'Behind Enemy Lines')
- Writer:
- Skip Woods
- Cast:
- Bruce WillisJai CourtneyMary Elizabeth WinsteadJulia SnigirYulia SnigirAnne VyalitsynaSebastian KochCole HauserAmaury NolascoMegalyn Echikunwoke
A Good Day to Die Hard / Reviews
Total Film
Good Day in a nutshell? Father-son bonding with heavy artillery, a lot of big bangs, a triple-figure body count and little else.
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Everything that made the first "Die Hard" memorable -- the nuances of character, the political subtext, the cowboy wit -- has been dumbed down or scrubbed away entirely.
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Los Angeles Times
The sense of exhilaration and fun that marked the best of the series has gone unaccountably AWOL.
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Little White Lies
Any remaining good faith in the franchise is now lost. Bruce's threatened sixth outing must surely be a bridge too far now.
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Hollywood Reporter
At 98 minutes, this is by far the shortest of the Die Hard films, the rest of which run more than two hours. But it ends not a moment too soon.
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