A Good Day to Die Hard
A Good Day to Die Hard is an American action movie released
in 2013. This movie is the fifth installment of the famous movie series of Die
Hard, which started at 1988. This film is written by Skip Woods and directed by
John Moore. The iconic character of John McClane is played here by Bruce Willis,
just like the previous movies of this franchise. Other major characters of A Good Day to Die Hard are
played by Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Yuliya Snigir and Sergei Kolesnikov.
In A Good Day to Die Hard, detective John McClane learns that his son is in a great danger in Russia. So John heads to Russia to bring his son back. His visit turns into a big mission where he gets a new companion, Jack McClane.
 |
| Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney in A Good Day to Die Hard |
A Good Day to Die Hard starts in Russia where an ex-billionaire named
Yuri is held in prison and people are demonstrating for him. He is believed to
be a political prisoner and is held captured by a plan made by a corrupted
government high official, who is also the candidate for home minister in the next
election. The officer goes to prison on the day before the trial and threatens
Yuri that if Yuri does not hand him a special file, Yuri’s life will be at
risk. Yuri does not get scared by this threat and says he will give the officer
nothing.
At that night, a
young man shoots and kills someone in a bar stating that he is working for
Yuri. When he is captured and then sent to interrogation, he tells the police
that he will testify against Yuri, if they hold his trial with Yuri’s.
Meanwhile in USA, detective John McClane finds the whereabouts
of his son, Jack, and learns that he is in a prison in Russia. So John heads to
Russia and reaches there on the day when his son is going to be on the court. His
taxi gets stuck in jam on the way to the court so he leaves the taxi and starts
walking. When he gets near the court, in his detective eyes, he finds something
strange happening around there.
At the court, Yuri and that young man is present. But before
the trial begins, a bomb explodes. The young man takes Yuri out of there safely
just before some armed people enter there looking for Yuri. The young man then
takes a delivery van to move Yuri from there, but before he starts, John comes
there and finds the young man as his son Jack, who is an undercover agent
working for C.I.A. John’s presence delays Jack and Yuri’s escape and meanwhile,
the armed people starts to chase them in their car. To save Jack, John starts
to go after the armed group.
After a lot of chasings and actions, finally John and Jack manage
to take Yuri to a secret safe house of USA in Russia. An agent was there. That agent and Jack convinces Yuri to give them the secret file in exchange of
Yuri's and his daughter’s safety. Yuri says the key to that file is located at a
hotel and he calls his daughter to be there. Then some armed men attack there
and kill the agent. John, Jack and Yuri escape from there and go to that
hotel.
At that hotel, Yuri finds his daughter. But those armed men
again attack there and take Yuri’s daughter, who then turns out to be a team
member of those armed men lead by that corrupted official and also against her
father. Taking Yuri, his daughter and the secret key, they head for the
location where the file is hidden. Some other people of that group try to kill
Jack and John but fail. Jack and John manage to kill everyone in that room
before being attacked by some more soldiers on a helicopter, but finally
escape from there alive.
Yuri is taken to a secret vault in Chernobyl along with his daughter
and the soldiers. Reaching there, the true face of Yuri’s daughter gets
exposed. We see that the whole plan is different than what we’ve seen till now.
John and Jack reaches there and soon they find the actual plan. They start to go
after the original villains.
My reviews about A Good Day to Die Hard:
First of all, to all Die Hard fans: prepare for
disappointment with A Good Day to Die Hard.
I’m starting the review by stating that, like thousands of
other people, I’m a big fan of the Die Hard series. But a lot of things I like
about all the other movies of this franchise are absent here in A Good Day to Die Hard.
The plot is not bad itself. It has some twists, but still it didn't seem strong enough. Although the ending of A Good Day to Die Hard was pretty predictable but that
is not a big issue, because it has been the case of all the Die Hard movies. These
movies are never about exciting endings. The screenplay here also seemed good.
I don’t need to say anything about the acting of Bruce
Willis. All other artistes have also done a good job in A Good Day to Die Hard. The dialogues are good,
except the dialogues of Bruce Willis’. His dialogues severely missed the charm
from the older movies of Die Hard. The make ups were also okay.
The lighting and the camera works are good in A Good Day to Die Hard. The
special effects are brilliant. Specially, the car chasing sequence at the
beginning was beautiful.
Like the previous movies, A Good Day to Die Hard does not contain
any nude scene or any other scenes which may make it inappropriate for
children.
Now, to talk about the things which I didn’t like about A
Good Day to Die Hard, I should start with the plot. In all the previous four
movies of this series, detective John McClane is put is such a situation that
he has no other way than to fight. But in here its not the same case. A Good Day to Die Hard was completely about the mission of his son Jack, and John just runs with him all
the time and fights. This is the first movie of this series where John is out
of USA, so A Good Day to Die Hard was supposed to be very interesting about how he is
surviving in a foreign land. But a lot of details are ignored and the director
has completely failed to use this at his advantage. Other than the location, almost nothing gave
us the feeling that he was out of his comfort zone.
One of the most interesting sides about the Die Hard movies
were the bold, dam care, rough and tough and bad-ass attitude of John McClane. But
those seemed all gone now, in A Good Day to Die Hard, we see him as a softer
person. I really missed his attitude here, where he had the guts to tell the
villains that he was coming to get them. The villain in A Good Day to Die Hard is also not
as strong as the previous villains and his character didn’t have the strong personality like them.
Remember the scene in Die Hard (part 1) where John’s wife
got sure that John was alive by seeing the fury of an enemy and said “Only John
can make someone that angry.”? I badly missed that John McClane in A Good Day
to Die Hard.
The action sequences of A Good Day to Die Hard also didn’t look realistic like the
previous films. How come he (and the villains) made such a mess in Moscow but
almost no police was after them? Coming to Russia as a tourist, how can he get
away after creating such a havoc? The part where Jack cut the ropes but the people
standing behind him didn’t notice that at all didn’t seem logical. Somewhere over
internet I read that, John McClane has killed 54 men in total in all the
previous movies. But in the car chase sequence at A Good Day to Die Hard, he seems to have harmed (and
killed) a lot of normal people, which doesn’t match with his reputation.
Several rumors are already all over internet about the Die Hard
series. Some say, Die Hard will end with the sixth movie, which will take
place at Japan. Another suggests, the importance of Jack McClane’s character given
in this film, international location, political involvements – all these
indicates that the time of John McClane has come to an end and his son will
continue the series. Let’s see what happens in future days.
So, overall, although its not a bad movie itself, but A Good
Day to Die Hard fails to satisfy a Die Hard fan. It doesn’t matter whether I recommend
or not, action movie fans will watch this one just for its name and awesomeness
of its prequels. But I’ll conclude by saying, I was disappointed by A Good Day to Die Hard.
How did you like it? What are the things
you missed in A Good Day to Die Hard? Share with others in the comments.
To know more about it:
IMDB Link:
Wikipedia Link:
No matter what this review or any review says, you must watch this movie if you are a fan of the famous Die Hard series. Click this link to buy or rent this movie from Amazon: A Good Day to Die Hard Movie
No comments:
Post a Comment