A Good Day to Die Hard

A Good Day to Die Hard

Rating 5 out of 10

I'll admit I got a little excited when I first saw the trailer for the new Die Hard movie.  Getting a chance to see the baddest cop on the planet, John McClane, kick some Russian butt no matter how implausible just seemed like a can't miss.  After the Stalone and Schwarzenegger flops it was up to Bruce Willis to make a come out on top for the geezers.  This Die Hard is better than the first two mentioned films.  By about an inch.

After all the places  McClane has killed bad guys he was running out of American cities and needed to go to Russia.  McClane's little boy from the first Die Hard is now all grown up.  Jack is now in Russia and in trouble.  Dad flies to Russia to help out even though they don't get along and have issues from Dad never being around.  Turns out Jack is now working for the CIA in a big case to smuggle out a guy that has one of those super valuable "files" that has all the information necessary to bring down a huge mobster that has plans to blow up the world with his nukes.  No, this is not a plot driven movie.

This movie is nearly non-stop action from start to finish.  The problem is the action is so over the top and unbelievable you just can't swallow it.  This from a guy that bought Expendables one and two!  Willis gets thrown through or jumps into a dozen plate glass windows, leaps off tall buildings bouncing off scaffolds all the way down, swims in a radio active pool at Chernobyl (Russia not Sweden) all with barely a scratch.  Is McClane a Terminator now?

Out of the five Die Hard movies I would rate this one #4 only above Die Hard 3.  It's mildly entertaining but not something you'll want to see again for sure.  Time to retire the series.