A Good Day to Die Hard (2013), John Moore
3/5
As a fan of Die Hard this was an expected disappointment. The premise is rather loose, but at least it doesn't try to embellish and basically jumps straight into the action. The storyline is fine, the writing better than the previous film (although nothing on the original) Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4.0) which was utterly ridiculous. Despite this, the fifth film in the series really suffers, with very few moments of levity or one liners. At once, this is good as it is restrained and resists many moments of cheesy go-to lines, however without any substitutes it lacks the charm and visual humour that was the strength of the first film. The obligatory father son storyline is annoying at times, but the acting is good and gets half way to heartfelt at brief moments, albeit set to the background of cars flipping and explosions. The effects and action aren't that interesting and to be honest I tuned out much of the first act which consisted of an elaborate and ridiculous car chase. Overall while this may technically be a better film than the fourth movie, it's not as enjoyable as the more ridiculous moments where he takes on a helicopter with a car and had the hilarious Justin Long as side kick. Overall this is a pretty average action movie that fell rather expectedly flat.
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