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Week 6 - December 13th, 2013
A Good Day To Die Hard (Canadian)
I never thought a Die Hard film could be boring...
The thing that made the original Die Hard exciting was that he was a regular die caught in an irregular situation. He wasn't a Stallone or a Schwarzenner, he was a nobody. This is 4 sequels later and John McClane is the Terminator. He can be blown up, flipped over in not one, but two car crashes, thrown from a helicopter through a glass window building, shot at, jump off a building, fall through more glass windows and God knows what else...and be perfectly fine.
A Good Day to Die Hard feels like a script someone found in a pile at a studio and through the Die Hard title on it. I really liked Live Free Or Die Hard, John McClane (the MOFO member) didn't. He felt that the film did not feel like a Die Hard picture. I get that feeling with this entry. This is no longer Die Hard, this is random action film starring Bruce Willis.
The change of environment doesn't really do the film any favours. The addition of his son this time instead of his daughter is even worse. Now we have father-son hate bantering going on. Also, how many times does Willis have to remind us he is on vacation? Once, twice, three times maybe? It felt like once every 15 minutes. A car chase sequence that is excessive to the point of boredom. Plot twists you can see coming a mile away and a flat out boring, uninteresting and overall stupid villain add up to make this, not only the worst Die Hard entry, but one of the worst films of the year.
Skip this garbage and hope to God that they go back to basics in the next entry.
A Good Day To Die Hard (Canadian)
I never thought a Die Hard film could be boring...
The thing that made the original Die Hard exciting was that he was a regular die caught in an irregular situation. He wasn't a Stallone or a Schwarzenner, he was a nobody. This is 4 sequels later and John McClane is the Terminator. He can be blown up, flipped over in not one, but two car crashes, thrown from a helicopter through a glass window building, shot at, jump off a building, fall through more glass windows and God knows what else...and be perfectly fine.
A Good Day to Die Hard feels like a script someone found in a pile at a studio and through the Die Hard title on it. I really liked Live Free Or Die Hard, John McClane (the MOFO member) didn't. He felt that the film did not feel like a Die Hard picture. I get that feeling with this entry. This is no longer Die Hard, this is random action film starring Bruce Willis.
The change of environment doesn't really do the film any favours. The addition of his son this time instead of his daughter is even worse. Now we have father-son hate bantering going on. Also, how many times does Willis have to remind us he is on vacation? Once, twice, three times maybe? It felt like once every 15 minutes. A car chase sequence that is excessive to the point of boredom. Plot twists you can see coming a mile away and a flat out boring, uninteresting and overall stupid villain add up to make this, not only the worst Die Hard entry, but one of the worst films of the year.
Skip this garbage and hope to God that they go back to basics in the next entry.