Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.
A Good Day to Die Hard is widely regarded as the weakest entry in the Die Hard franchise. The plot is thin, incoherent, and riddled with contrivances — the nuclear heist/Chernobyl twist is poorly developed. The acting is serviceable but Bruce Willis sleepwalks through the role, and Jai Courtney brings little charisma. Cinematography is loud and choppy — the Moscow car chase is exhausting rather than exhilarating, with shaky cam and poor spatial clarity. Novelty is extremely low: it recycles franchise beats without adding anything distinctive, functioning as a generic action film that barely feels like a Die Hard movie. The ending is forgettable and anticlimactic, though it resolves the father-son conflict in a perfunctory way.