: A Good Day To Die Hard
This is an odd “review” to write, since I didn’t see the end of the movie. The theatre I was at had technical problems with about twenty minutes to go and basically said they’d be too long fixing it for us to see the rest of the film. They comped us replacement tickets and said we could wait around for the next showing, but I didn’t want to wait 45 minutes for that… and have to endure the hour of the movie I’d already seen over again.
The sad thing is that I wasn’t upset. I was bored silly and I think I fell asleep. I loved the concept of a new Die Hard movie (the original’s one of my all-time favorites), but this one barely even attempts to be anything Die Hard-like.
It begins terribly, with Bruce Willis’ character rushing off to Russia to save his arrested son. They’re estranged, but we have zero back story on why or what’s happening, and basically the two just yell and scowl at each other and we’re not in on the history. They don’t even get to communicate much, as immediately the action starts and doesn’t stop — but without any meaning behind anything, there’s nothing to care about. I found it excruciating, despite the fact that some of the scenery is interesting and the opening car chase is jaw-dropping in terms of outrageous stunts.
I’ll probably catch the end of this movie someday on cable — but in the meantime, I’d suggest you don’t bother.
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