The fifth installment of the the "Die Hard" movie series, "A Good Day to Die" is mediocre at best, earning a one star rating.
I haven't seen any of the previous four "Die Hard" movies, but if those movies are anything like the Valentines Day release of the futile fifth, I haven't missed a thing.
Supposedly this movie is an action comedy. The comedy is drab and disastrously dry. The action is redundant and over the top with extremely bad camera work. I've seen better film on teeth. I got that line from the movie "Get Shorty."
John McClane (Bruce Willis), a New York cop leaves the Big Apple to find his son Jack (Jai Courtney), who's living in Moscow. His son Jack is a spy working undercover to protect Komarov (Sebastian Koch) who has a hidden file to bring down the ones who covered up the 80s Chernobyl disaster.
The pathetically predicable plot yields one unique twist, but by this point the movie is a perfect sleeping aide for insomniacs. As I stated earlier the action is over the top. A military war head is fired into heavy traffic with no injuries nor fatalities, the two McClanes are both pounded hard in the face with the butt of a rifle and feel no pain. Without ducking the two run threw machine gun fire from a Russian military helicopter. As countless bullets hurl through glass and other debris, the two jump out of a sky scraper falling several floors through scaffolding and surprise, just a few minor cuts a scrapes.
The unavailing sentiment between father and son is as believable as a truthful government.
Astonishingly, the bad guys lose and the good guys win. The best part of this movie is the end credits with the Rolling Stones song "Doom and Gloom" announcing a much needed conclusion to a movie that should have never been made.
