A Good Day to Die Hard Review

John McClane (Bruce Willis) goes to Moscow when his son is arrested for murder, only to discover that Jack (Jai Courtney) is a CIA agent on an undercover mission to track down a file held by infamous nuclear weapons specialist; Komarov. The McClanes go on the run through Russia, pursued by countless enemies and weirdly find themselves in the heart of one of the worst environmental disasters in recent history, Chernobyl. 

First of all this film is rated a 12A in the UK, meaning that people younger than the age of 12 can see this film. Now when you take into consideration the first one was an 18, I could see this film being extremely weak.

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If I’m honest I was shocked they were making a new Die Hard, I always thought the first and second were as good as it was going to get in terms of the franchise. The trailers didn't do anything to persuade my opinion otherwise, but one thing that did catch my eye, like with the other Die Hard film was the action.

The film starts off with us finding out why John McClane's son Jack, is imprisoned, with him shooting what seemed to be a Russian gangster; A typical start to a die hard film. The film then takes a very calm turn so to speak with John McClane being asked to rescue his son who he hasn't seen for 2-3 years, obviously taking up the task without an ounce of hesitation. 

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The film then leads to the Russian capital of Moscow, where the typical Die Hard cheesy scenes, lines and old Cold War jokes begin. It all starts with a Russian Cabby singing Frank Sinatra, this was the worst part of the film. The Russian extra couldn't remotely act, he couldn't even hold an acted conversation. Eventually the pain of that scene was over, as John McClane goes over to see the riots happening outside of Moscow's court house, only to see his son and Kamarov. The notorious nuclear manufacturer being led in there by chains, the scene is really quite good with hordes of Russian demonstrating extreme passion, waving flags and the colour seems to be drained completely from the scene. From there on it is jammed packed with action, that's the positives I took from it anyway. 

Kamarov eventually leads them to a penthouse high in the Moscow skyline where Villain Alik is waiting, he is the guy who is hired to kill both of them and receive a file on Alik's boss. The story focuses very heavily on the relationship that John and Jack have and how it becomes stronger as the story progresses. However, you may think that this reads for an interesting story, you're wrong. Where other Die Hards succeeded, excluding Die Hard 4, with great combinations of story and action, this is however completely different as there is a extreme lack of dialogue with the occasional smug  line from the ever present Bruce Willis. 

The Nuclear war munger leads the film to the savaged land that is Chernobyl, yes Chernobyl, as if it hadn’t been used enough already. This is where yet another helicopter attacks the two ‘heroes’, as it swoops past a window shooting an huge array of bullets that are to most, un-dodgeable. As they exit a building the only way they know, free-falling in lets say, spectacular slow motion. 

So to conclude I genuinely thought that this film was woeful the smug and cheeky comments got extremely tiring, the lack of meaningful dialogue was extremely annoying and the fact it had no real story meant it was quite hard to follow, all be it the action and CGI were rather good a silver lining in this forgettable film for Bruce Willis.  

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