5 Souls Movie Review

5 Souls

                                     

5 Souls is a horror drama movie released in 2011. This movie is written by Colet Abedi and directed by Brett Donowho. The main characters of 5 Souls are played by Samaire Armstrong, Steve Bacic, Ian Bohen, Allison McAtee and Charles Solomon Jr.

The movie 5 Souls consists of two plots, where at one, a man whose wife and little girl have been killed in a collapsed building, is trying to find who is responsible for the accident. In the other plot, a man in coma is faced by a demon who is pushes him to kill five people.

Steve Bacic and Allison McAtee in 5 Souls

Plot:

At the beginning of 5 Souls, we see a small clip where a little girl followed by her mother runs to a building and then the building starts to collapse.

Then we see a man named Sam, an ex-police officer and the father of that little girl, leaving a lonely, depressed life and attempts to commit suicide but refrains himself at the last moment. Another building has collapsed and he goes there. He enters the restricted zone and a detective, named Sara, questions him. He says that he is a government officer and convinces Sara to let him stay there. Then another police officer comes and recognizes him but Sam doesn’t tell him that he has already fooled Sara.

Later on, Sam and Sara meet at a bar and Sara thanks Sam for not making her look like a fool in front of her colleagues. Then they make out. After that, Sam tells Sara that the owner of that building is responsible for the collapses by using poor material and he is also the owner of the building where Sam’s daughter and wife died. Sara agrees to take his help in her investigation.

On another side, on the day when the building collapses, a man named Noah, who is going to get married soon, goes to a doctor to get some vaccine. But just after taking the vaccines, he feels sick and then falls into coma after he’s taken to a hospital.

In the hospital, he sees a man in his room who has some very special abilities. That man says he has come to kill Noah, but after Noah’s begging, he gives him a chance. He says, Noah has to kill five people to save himself. Seeing no way out, Noah agrees and then proceeds to the killing. He kills the first victim, and sees that nobody can see him. He also meets a blind girl who can see him and she offers him her help but he refuses.

Meanwhile, Sam and Sara start to live together and continue their investigation. They find some clues of using low grade materials by the building owner. They go to his office and meet him, and he grants them access to company’s files. Their further investigation leads them to Noah’s fiancée, who is an employee of that company. But in these times, some personal issues and Sam’s past records irritates Sara and she wants to stay away, but finally Sam convinces her to keep him in the investigation.

At the hospital, Noah keeps on filling his quota of killing five people. The ghosts of his victims come to haunt him, but it doesn’t stop him from killing. The demon is pleased on him and then according to the demon’s instruction, Jonah wakes up from the coma to kill his last victim, just when Sam and Sara reach the same hospital.

Ian Bohen in 5 Souls

My review about the movie 5 Souls:

5 Souls seemed as a very strange movie, which has a good production value, but is very poorly written.

The plot of 5 Souls seemed very weird. Each of the two plots could make good movies alone, with the same cast. But none of them felt complete and their mixture also didn’t seem good. Though the whole movie, everyone can guess that the two plots will collide at the end, but the way they collided was not enjoyable. The character development also seemed very poor in 5 Souls.

But other than the bad scriptwriting and bad direction, almost everything else in 5 Souls was good. The actors and actresses did a good job. Almost all of the leading artists in 5 Souls have done a good number of TV series ago and their acting here seemed natural. The lighting and set design was also good and the special effects of the demon looked beautiful and scary. The sound effects were good too.

There is a small nudity in 5 Souls. For that and for the killing scenes, I think this movie is not good for children.

So, finally, 5 Souls is an example of how a poor plot can harm the beauty of an otherwise-good movie. I think, this one had a good potential to be a nice movie, but failed completely. I believe I’ve wasted my time by watching it. I will not recommend 5 Souls to anyone.

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Oblivion Movie Review

Oblivion

                                         

Oblivion is a science fiction action thriller movie released in 2013. The release date of this movie is near to Will Smith's sci-fi movie After Earth. This movie is based on Joseph Kosinski's unpublished graphic novel of the same name. Oblivion is written by Joseph Kosinski, Michael Arndt and Karl Gajdusek and directed by Joseph Kosinski. This movie has a very small set of characters, which is played by Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Melissa Leo.

Oblivion tells the story of future, where a drone technician finds a lady whom he has dreamt several times, in a crashed spaceship. Then the whole world, as he knows it, starts to change.

Tom Cruise and Olga Kurylenko in Oblivion

Plot:

This is a story of the year 2077. Around 60 years ago, some aliens (called Scavengers, or scavs) has attacked earth. They have started the attack by destroying the moon, creating environmental imbalance in planet earth. Then they invaded earth. To stop them, the world leaders have used nuclear bombs, which made the earth uninhabitable even for human. Mankind has moved to Titan, one of Saturn’s moons.

Now human have put several machines which generate power from the seawater. Scavs are still there in the earth, so human are using drones to protect the machines. There is also a space station named Tet near the earth, which is used as the control station of the whole program.

Jack is one of the very few people living in the earth. He is a drone technician. His job is to take care of the drones and repair them when needed. He lives in a secure high tech beautiful home with his partner and lover Victoria, who coordinates and navigates Jack’s mission according to the orders from the Tet. It’s been 5 years since Jack had a mandatory memory swipe, but regularly he dreams of another lady with him in a busy city.

Jack’s days pass by doing his job, while frequently he has to fight with scavs. In one situation, when he was face to face with a group of scavs, he finds that the scavs are no trying to kill him, but trying to catch him. He has a secret place, where there is still some trees left and there he has a cabin by a lake, where he goes secretly to relax.

One day, Jack and Victoria find a strange signal coming from a tower. Jack there place and before disabling it, he finds that, the signal is broadcasting coordinates of a location. Later on that day, Jack finds a crashed spaceship there with the crews in capsules. To Jack’s amazement, a drone comes there and starts killing them, instead of saving them. In one capsule, Jack finds the girl from his dream and saves her from the drones by risking his life. He brings her to his home.

As soon as she wakes up, she seems to recognize Jack. She tells her name is Julia and her spaceship was a mission by NASA. She then wants to recover the flight recorder from her ship, so Jack takes her to the crash site. There they are attacked by the scavs and the scavs take them to their hiding place.

After going there, Jack finds that the scavs are nothing but human. They ask Jack’s help to plant a bomb in the Tet. Jack refuses and then the scav leader lets him go free and suggests him to visit the restricted ‘radiation zone’ where, according to Jack’s instructions, he will burn if he enters.

Jack takes Julia to some place and asks her identity. Then Julia reveals that she is Jack’s wife. Jack then remembers some of his memories with Julia. Victoria sees the scene with her camera, and when Jack and Julia returns home, Victoria refuses to open the door. She also reports to the Tet that they are no more an effective team.

Suddenly, a drone gets activated and kills Victoria. It then tries to kill Jack, but Julia saves him. Then Jack and Julia get chased by some more drones and finally crash in the radiation zone. At the radiation zone, Jack finds a clone of himself and both of the clones start to fight. In their fight, Julia gets injured. So find treatment for her, Jack finds a home identical to his home in another zone, with the clone of Victoria as well.

To find answers, Jack and Julia go to the scav leader again. Here Jack tries to find the facts about the Tet, the scavs, his own past, Julia’s true identity and the mystery of the clones.

My reviews about the movie Oblivion:

I liked Oblivion very much, not for the plot, but for the beautiful cinematography and special effects.

The plot of Oblivion is very simple and predictable. There is no doubt that the plot is good, but we have seen a lot of movies with kind of similar plots, like I’Robot or the Eagle Eye. In a movie with Tom Cruise in it, we obviously expect something remarkable. There were a lot of hints throughout the movie Oblivion, so it became predictable that who the main villain was.

What made the Oblivion special was the beautiful screenplay, cinematography and the special effects. The use of special effects was extra-ordinary, even comparing with other high rated science fiction movies. The set design, lighting and camera works were perfect matches with the context of this movie.

Oblivion has a remarkably small set of characters but each of them has performed perfectly. I don’t need to write anything about Tom Cruise or Morgan Freeman, but everyone else did very well. The make ups and the dialogues were also extremely good. But this movie has very small amount of action sequences. More action sequences could make Oblivion more enjoyable.

Another downside of Oblivion is, a lot of screen time was given only to show Tom Cruise alone, specially on the first half. It was bearable only because it was extremely handsome Tom Cruise. With any other actor, it would look boring.

Although there is a small nudity at the beginning, but I still think it safe to watch Oblivion with kids.

So, finally, Oblivion is good movie, where everything, except the plot, were extra-ordinary. My time was well spent watching this movie and I’ll definitely recommend Oblivion to all movie lovers.

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247 Degrees Fahrenheit Movie Review

247 Degrees Fahrenheit

                                                             

247 Degrees Fahrenheit is a suspense thriller drama movie released in 2011. This movie is written by  Lloyd S. Wagner, Levan Bakhia and Beqa Oniani and directed by Levan Bakhia and Beqa Jguburia. The very small set of characters in 247 Degrees Fahrenheit is played by Scout Taylor-Compton, Travis Van Winkle, Christina Ulloa, Michael Copon and Tyler Mane.

247 Degrees Fahrenheit is about a group of friends who gets trapped in a sauna, unable to control the high temperature in it. They must fight for their survival until any help from outside comes.

A Scene from the movie 247 Degrees Fahrenheit

Plot:

At the beginning of the movie 247 Degrees Fahrenheit, a couple is going somewhere in the car at night and they have an accident. The accident kills the boy, leaving the girl, named Jenna, injured but alive.

Three years later, Jenna, with her good friend Renee and her boyfriend Michael and Michael’s friend Ian, goes to a trip to spend their vacation. Renee and her boyfriend are trying to fix Jenna with Ian but Jenna is still trying to recover from her tragedy. The four of them goes to a lakeside cabin owned by Ian’s relative Wade. Wade welcomes them all to his beautiful cabin.

At that town, a special festival is going on and they have four passes for a special invite-only party. They all like the cabin very much. Renee and Michael start to make love as soon as they go to their room while Jenna and Ian start to arrange for dinner. Meanwhile, Jenna has refrained herself from taking her medicines, because she is trying to move on and live without her medicines.

They have dinner and then Wade leaves telling that he has some other things to take care of. But before going to the party, they find a beautifully decorated hot sauna in that cabin. Together they hit the sauna and enjoy there. But when they feel too hot, they goes out and together jumps in the lake. But the water of the lake was again too cold for them, so they again head to the sauna.

But before going to the sauna, the two boys have some drink and Michael becomes drunk. He tries to seduce Renee but she refuses. Michael becomes mad and leaves the sauna. He heads upstairs to go to the bathroom. Inside the sauna, Renee feels irritated. After finishing their sauna bath, when the three of them tries to go out, they find that the door is stuck by something from the outside and they are trapped.

They call Michael but the door is too thick to let out much of the sound. They find that, the temperature control system of the sauna is outside, so they can’t reduce the heat. There is a thermostat inside the room, but messing with it may even increase the heat. The system has a maximum heat to 250 degrees Fahrenheit, where they have previously set it at 185 degrees. Until any help from outside comes, they have to survive in this room with only a very small amount of water.

Renee become paranoid and starts to irritate Jenna and Ian. Several times she conducts personal attack on Jenna. Ian tries to find any possible way to get out of the sauna. After several of his attempts and bleeding from his hand, he manages to break a small glass window. It helps them to get some fresh air in the room, but with the risk of the temperature going higher.  He also tries to move that obstacle from the door, but fails.

One time, they hear the barking of Wade’s dog. They shout by the name of that dog and the dog understands their location. Then the dog runs to Wade to bring him for help, but Wade fails to understand the intention of the dog and goes somewhere else taking Michael.

Inside the sauna, Ian tries to blow the fuse by messing with the bulbs. His plan is to stop the heater by cutting the power. But instead of blowing the fuse, his attempts blow the lights and keep the heater running. He also gets a severe electric shock and passes out. He gains his consciousness and finally loses his mind.

Renee has already passed out. So now its all unto Jenna to save their lives.

But who has trapped them inside the sauna? Why there is no response from Michael? What is blocking the door? Why Wade is not returning to the cabin? Why is Michael not looking for them?  Let’s watch this movie till the end to find the answers.

My review about the movie 247 Degrees Fahrenheit:

First of all, 247 Degrees Fahrenheit was a good movie.

The plot is very simple, but interesting. It has kept me wondering throughout the movie about what is actually happening outside the sauna. The answers were hard to predict. At the end of 247 Degrees Fahrenheit, everything fits perfectly, answering all the questions that came in mind.

The acting of all the characters of 247 Degrees Fahrenheit was good and fluent. Although, several times it seemed a little weak on acting, but overall the performance was good. The dialogues were also good. Same goes for makeups.

The screenplay and direction of 247 Degrees Fahrenheit seemed very good. We must give credit to the director to manage to keep the suspense up throughout the movie with such a simple plot. The thrill grew up very slowly from the beginning and once it was up, it stayed till the end. Although the sound effects seemed irritating sometimes, but most of the times, it has helped the suspense. 247 Degrees Fahrenheit gives enough time to know the characters. The screentime was beautifully balanced between inside and outside of the sauna, so it didn’t seem boring at all. 

They way they were trapped was the result of an accident and at the end, we see what happened with Michael, so 247 Degrees Fahrenheit has no villain. The writers should also get some credit for creating such a good plot with no evil character.

I have a little complain about the name 247 Degrees Fahrenheit. Ian said, they have set the temperature at 185 degrees, where the maximum it can get was 250 degrees. So, i don't understand how the name fits.

247 Degrees Fahrenheit contains no nude or graphic scene, but has some small scenes with drugs. I think it can be watched with kids. But most part of this movie is inside a sauna and the artists are in their underwear. So considering the nature of this film, I think a little nudity could look good in it.

So, finally, 247 Degrees Fahrenheit seemed like a good movie. I think the IMDB users has done an injustice by rating it only 4.7/10 (while I’m writing this review), this movie deserves a little better. I’d recommend 247 Degrees Fahrenheit to all movie lovers.

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Breaking the Girls Movie Review

Breaking the Girls

                                                          

Breaking the Girls is an erotic crime thriller movie released in 2013. This film is written by Mark Distefano, Guinevere Turner and directed by Jamie Babbit. The main roles of Breaking the Girls are played by Shawn Ashmore, Agnes Bruckner (whom we saw also in The Pact), Madeline Zima, Shanna Collins and Kate Levering.

Breaking the Girls is about a girl who gets a new friend all of a sudden and gets very intimate with her. Then she tries to find a way out of the scene where she is framed for a murder by her that new friend.

Agnes Bruckner and Madeline Zima in Breaking The Girls

Plot:

Sara is just a regular girl who is studying law. At the evening, she works in a bar. She has a crush on a guy, but that guy’s girlfriend always seeks for opportunity to humiliate her. At one evening, a beautiful and rich girl named Alex comes to the bar and Sara saves her from an irritating boy. Sara and Alex soon becomes friends and after drinking, Alex become unstable to drive herself home, so Sara takes Alex home in Alex’s high valued car.

Alex sees Sara’s embarrassment about her crash and then takes Sara to a high class party. Sara’s crush and his girlfriend are there at that party, but for coming with Alex, Sara is in a better situation here. At that party, Sara also meets Alex’s stepmother. Later on, Alex, Sara and her crush come together Alex’s house and they start making out, but after sometime, the two girls make out, leaving Sara’s Crush.

Next morning, Alex tells Sara about her affection to Sara. Later on, after going to class, Sara finds that her scholarship has been cancelled and her crush’s girlfriend has used her connection to do it. Sara gets mad and then threatens that girl. Then Alex comes there and takes Sara for a ride. Then she takes Sara to her parent’s home where she grew up. It is also the place where her mother died in a pool.

At night, Alex’s father and her stepmother comes home while Alex and Sara are there. Alex’s father scolds Alex for her behavior. Then Alex tells Sara how her friend has become her stepmother by seducing her father and now enjoying his wealth. Later on that night, Alex proposes Sara to kill Alex’s stepmother and in return, Alex will kill Sara’s crush’s girlfriend. In this way, none of their motives will be known by police.

Sara takes the proposal as a joke. But few days later, Alex kills that girl. Considering her threat to that girl few days ago, Sara becomes a suspect. A police officer comes to interrogate Sara, but Alex gives her alibi. Sara becomes terrified and leaves Alex’s home. She moves in with her crush, who is now her boyfriend.

But Alex keeps pushing her, so at one point she goes to Alex’s parents’ house with a gun in hand. But there she finds the dead body of Alex’s father. Meanwhile, someone else has tipped police about her, so reaching there, police finds Sara at the crime scene. They take Sara to station and Alex comes there and gives false statement against Sara, which puts Sara into jail.

Later, Sara’s professor and her boyfriend come to the police station and take her out. Then Sara moves in with her boyfriend. Then we see that, Alex and her stepmother have planned the whole thing. They have killed Alex’s father to get all property which they will divide themselves and framed Sara for it. Alex also has some sexual relation with her.

In the next few days, Alex finds some connection between that lady and Sara. She starts to get suspicious. On another side, Sara seeks for revenge on Alex for framing her. Finally she plans to get her revenge.

Can Sara prove her innocence? Is she really innocent?  Will the identity of the true criminal gets revealed?  Lets watch the movie to get the answers.

My reviews about Breaking the Girls:

First of all, I liked this movie.

The plot of Breaking the Girls is good and interesting. The ending is has a big twist, which is perfect for a thriller. What happened at the ending was hard to predict, specially the identity of Alex’s stepmother was impossible to guess. The ending has made the movie really interesting. The twist of plot at the end of Breaking the Girls is pretty balanced, its not too much twist like what we saw in the Wild Things series, where it seemed irritating.

 The acting of almost all the characters of Breaking the Girls seemed good, except Madeline Zima. Somehow, her acting didn’t seem all natural. But all other artists were very good fit according to their characters. Agnes Bruckner looked amazing throughout the movie.

The makeups and dialogues of Breaking the Girls are very good. The screenplay and directions are also impressive.

What this movie lacked badly was some nude scenes. The lesbian relation between Alex and others is a big part of Breaking the Girls. But this movie has absolutely no frontal nudity. The appeal of an erotic thriller movie surely decreases with the lack of enough nudity.

Although I’ve said it has is no frontal nudity, but the nature of Breaking the Girls has made it not suitable for kids.

So, overall, I’ve enjoyed watching Breaking the Girls. Although the lack of nudity is on the negative side of this movie, but the combination of good plot, good acting and good screenplay has made this movie enjoyable. I’d recommend all movie lovers to watch Breaking the Girls.

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No Tell Motel Movie Review

No Tell Motel

                                                 

No Tell Motel is a horror thriller movie released in 2012. This movie is written by T.J. Cimfel and directed by Brett Donowho. The different characters of this film are played by Rileigh Chalmers, Johnny Hawkes, Chalie Howes, Andrew MacFarlane, Angel McCord and Chelsey Reist.

No Tell Motel is about a group of friends who have an accident in the highway and the goes to a nearby abandoned motel to stay at the night. But the terrifying history of that hotel haunts them and they start to get killed one by one.

A Scene from the movie No Tell Motel

Plot:

At the beginning of No Tell Motel  we see a small clip, where a little girl gets killed on the highway by a speeding vehicle. Her parents rush to her, who were just a few feet away from her, in front of a motel.

Five friends (two couples and another girl, where the two boys are brothers) are heading to a cottage in their RV to spend a vacation. They stop at a store to buy supplies, where one of the girls secretly buys pregnancy test kit. A boy is seen severely addicted to some special drugs. They again start from the store. The boy who was driving the RV is speeding ignoring all other’s warnings and finally has an accident.

Now, in the highway at the middle of the night, they are at a loss. But soon they find an abandoned motel nearby (the same motel which we saw in the clip at the beginning of the movie) and they all goes there to spend the night. The addicted boy gets busy with his tablets, a couple starts to make out and another girl, with her pregnancy test, finds out that she is pregnant. She shares it with another girl of the group and also says that she doesn’t understand how this has happened, because she always uses protection with her boyfriend. The other girl also shares some of her secrets with her.

A girl from that group sees a little girl (who died at the beginning of the movie) and while following her, she gets killed by a speeding truck. The others finds her dead body holding a little girl’s shoe and a scar on her face, which she saw on the little girl. They also find the injured and unconscious driver of the truck which caused that accident and carries him to the motel.

While a girl from the group was roaming around the motel, the wooden floor breaks and she falls in a room in the basement. She finds someone else’s presence in the room and a wooden horse moves itself towards her, so she hides in the next room. The addicted boy finds her from the ground floor, and while looking for something to save her, he finds some more drugs. By taking those drugs, he loses his mind. Meanwhile, the girl in the basement has some sort of vision from the past where she sees a lady in the bathtub, cutting her own wrists.

In another room, the dead girl’s boyfriend start to hit on the addicted guy’s boyfriend, but the addicted guy comes there and the two boys head for the basement to save the girl. But meanwhile, she has seen the little girl again and while trying to escape from there, she dies. The two boys go to the basement where one of them gets mysteriously locked in a room. There the again see some vision where a lady is tied to a table.

In the meantime, the driver of the truck that killed the first girl wakes up and then he tells the last girl about this motel. He says, after their little girl got killed on the accident, her parents got insane and the mother tried to commit suicide. The father saved her and kept her inside the basement tied to a table, where he used to feed her.

In the basement, the door of the room opens on its own and the man there sees another vision of the father of the dead little girl raping his wife. He then comes upstairs and taking the girl, goes to basement again and find another girl’s dead body. In the meantime, the addicted boy has come upstairs and traps himself inside a bathroom and keeps on taking drugs. He sees the little girl sitting in the bathtub, staring at him. When the two from the basement comes upstairs, they find his dead body. Then the man tells the girl that one time he drugged and then raped her. Hearing this, she leaves the room and starts to make contact with the ghost of the little girl to know her intentions.  

Following the little girl, she finds the horrific facts which happened in this motel long ago. She also learns the true identity of the truck driver and then she, along with her friend, fights to come out of this motel alive.

My review about No Tell Motel:

First of all, I didn’t like No Tell Motel at all.

The plot of this movie is not bad, but its too common to interest anyone. We have seen a lot of horror movies like No Tell Motel. The ending is also predictable.

The regular things in No Tell Motel didn’t seem realistic at all. For example, a group of friends were on a trip, but when the accidents happened, none of them seem to have any deep emotion for the death of their friends. One of them even started to hit on his brother’s girlfriend just minutes after his girlfriend died in No Tell Motel. In an abandoned hotel in the middle of nowhere, no one had someone to watch his/her back.

The acting of all the characters in No Tell Motel are a little below average, nothing impressive. Same goes for the dialogues.

The direction and the screenplay were really poor. None of the characters looked realistic. The character development also in No Tell Motel seemed very poor. None of the characters seemed to look at the real problem throughout the whole movie, even after their friend’s death. The scenes from the past didn’t look scary or pleasant at all. The whole movie No Tell Motel has failed to give a scare to me in any way.

The use of special effects in No Tell Motel was very limited. But they seemed okay.

There were no nude scenes or gore scenes in this movie, so you can watch it with kids.

So, finally, I didn’t find No Tell Motel worth watching. After watching it, I felt I’ve wasted a good amount of time. If you are looking for horror movies, there are a lot other better alternatives and you can view the other posts of my blog to get some names. I will not recommend No Tell Motel to anyone.

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A Good Day to Die Hard Movie Review

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

Plot:

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.

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