(Movie Review) A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)

John McClane continues his assault on all things breakable in A Good Day To Die Hard…and wins

People really make me mad. I mean, like, furious. Do you know why? Because they are NEVER happy! When movies like, Bullet to the Head (2013), The Expendables 2 (2012) & The Last Stand (2013) came out, people cried into their popcorn and said “ This is so lame. A bunch of 60 & 70 year olds blowing stuff up and shuffling around. There needs to be more action.” Then you have a movie like A Good Day To Die Hard that comes out and people continue to cry into their popcorn saying “this is so unrealistic. A guy in his 50s could never survive that”. It’s maddening.

Storyline: Detective John McClane (Willis) has been looking for information on his son Jack/John Jr. (Courtney) as he has been out of contact with John for years. When John finally receives information that Jack is in Russia, John hops on the first plane in an attempt to see his son. When he arrives in Russia he finds that Jack is part of the CIA and is currently in charge of a Prisoner of the State that might be able to take down those responsible for the Chernobyl disaster that took place in 1986. The only problem is getting this man out of Russia alive. Jack and John must team up to protect Mr. Komarov (Koch) and get him to safety.

So, as you can tell from what I said in the beginning, I think that this movie is getting a lot of hate for no reason. People are complaining about how “over the top” some of the action is? How can they think back to 1988 and watch John McClane get shot, run barefoot through glass, and get blown up and say “this is completely realistic” but when 2013 John McClane gets thrown through a glass window while hanging on to the tail of a helicopter they say “rubbish! This could never be!” I have some sobering news for people (and the critics that gave this movie such bad reviews), most of the stuff that happens in ANY movie can’t really happen. There are no Terminators, there is no magic mail box at a lake house that acts as a time warp, there are no clowns in the sewer, Godzilla is not real, and John McClane would have died in the very first movie if he was a real NYC Detective. So stop complaining about it, sit back, and watch Bruce Willis whisper his lines and blow up Russia!

Worth the admission? As a huge fan of all of the franchise, I am going to say yes. It was fun. Mindless action and things going “boom”. Sometimes movies can just be fun. They don’t have to challenge you or make you think. They can just be a good time. So check it out!