A Good Day to Die Hard. John McClane (Bruce Willis) finds out that his estranged son, Jack McClane (Jai Courtney) is in a Russian jail. He hops on a plane and heads to the Moscow court to support his son. Unknown to him, his son is a CIA agent who is attempting to extricate a high valued target from Moscow, Komarov (Sebastian Koch). John McClane interferes with the whole plan, forcing Jack to come up with a different strategy. John does his best to assist. This divergence from the original plan results in some spy intrigue to pop up as certain individuals have their own strategies in play.
I honestly don't understand why Bruce Willis would make movies like this (including his recent RED 2). Here's an actor who made a couple really good movies in 2012: Moonrise Kingdom and Looper. Then he spends 2013/2014 making movies like this along with RED 2 and G.I. Joe: Retaliation. In A Good Day to Die Hard, Bruce Willis is left making single line quips (which honestly aren't all that amusing) before the next action scene. Half the time, it seems like he's just doing the acting in his sleep.
And where does the climatic ending to this movie happen: Chernobyl. Now I don't know how radioactive Chernobyl still is, but the bad guys are all suited up to protect against radioactive hot spots. How do our heroes dress? Not in protect suits. And at one point they end up having to jump into an indoor pool. Radioactive water anyone? I guess even the writers/directors/actors found that too laughable so a line is put into the movie explaining that the pool was filled with rain water. An indoor pool filled with rainwater? Hmm . . .
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