Saturday, February 23, 2013

Die Hard...died!


Bruce Willis returns as John McClane in a story that is so non-existent that the title should have been a "A Confusing Day to Die Hard.  What was incredible, is it took two writers, Skip Woods and Roderick Thorp to come up with this story.  A Good Day to Die Hard starts off with John McClane finding out that his son is in trouble in Russia.  He decides that a "New York City" policeman can just waltz into Moscow saying several times throughout the movie that he was on vacation and save his son not knowing what is going on.  How he knows his son is where he is when he gets to Moscow in the beginning of the movie is still a mystery.  He gets mixed up in a terrorist conspiracy between two men and the CIA.  The car chase is the longest and most dizzying scene I have ever seen.  I don't know what director John Moore was thinking.  The plot was all over the place and predictable.  The dialogue between Jai Courtney's character (Jack McClane) and John McClane was pathetic than laughable.  Between the "I'm on vacation", "Yippee Ki-Yah" and Jack constantly yelling "John" instead of dad, it was really getting tiresome.  This latest edition of Die Hard was unbelievably bad.  Sorry Bruce, I really like you but not in this one.