Starring Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney
Directed by John Moore
After 25 years, and an astronomical body count, Bruce Willis returns as reluctant hero John McClane for a fifth installment in A Good Day To Die Hard.This one may be the most ridiculous in the series but its also the shortest, making for a quick and dirty, albeit wildly absurd action flick.
Director John Moore wastes no time in getting to the goods the movie opens with an elaborate undercover sting, a targeted hit and subsequent capture in a Moscow nightclub, all centered around a brawny young American who we soon discover is McClanes estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney). Soon enough, Willis appears onscreen shooting target practice, gets debriefed on the whereabouts of his offspring and travels to Russia to extract young John Jr.
It doesnt take long for the high-octane madness to ensue and Moore makes no bones about it this is straight up eye candy.
Granted, this adventure has the weakest story and worst script to date but it also retains the playful, manic sense of organized chaos that made the 1988 original so memorable. Willis and Courtney leap from buildings with superhero precision and an endless barrage of machine gun fire acts as the soundtrack at times (would it have killed them to thrown in a fistfight?).
A Good Day To Die Hard, though not as strong as previous outings, does provide enough silly fun and adrenaline-fueled mayhem to keep the franchise chugging along and ensures Willis still has plenty of fight left in him yippee-ki-yay.
