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A Good Day to Die Hard - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 06-23-2013
Cut me some slack. I was stuck on an aeroplane. Okay, so this was the first movie I watched on the return flight. And Hey, movie buyers, don't buy films that were shot really darkly, they are a bitch to see on those tiny screens.
Someone has to say, John McClane has become a caricature of that multi-dimensional character we me in the original Die Hard. Now he is just a one man quip machine, who spouts him in between fabulous action sequences. Something you should probably see for the full impact on a screen slightly larger that a hardback book.
In this one, Paycheck Willis, heads to Russia to bail his son out of jail after he commits a murder. But wait, McClane's son is going to turn states evidence against a media tycoon also being held in prison. But wait again, McClane's son is going to help the media tycoon escape from the courthouse. But wait McClane has arrived just in time to get mixed up in the gunplay at the court house and the race through Moscow's crowded streets.
There is a lot of bonding moments between McClane and his estranged son. There are a lot of tricky clever plot twists you will never see coming unless you are half paying attention.
If they cut out all the talky bits, especially the father-son interplay, and just had the action set pieces, it would make a fair to middlin movie.