Tuesday, April 15, 2014

A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)



"Damn, you McClane." (John McClane Jr.)

This movie is terrible.  Flat out terrible. It should be removed from the Die Hard pantheon immediately.

I wish I could have been hired to write the outline and script for this movie.  I would have done a much better job and worked for the lowest wage that my Screenwriters Guild Membership would allow.  If the team that wrote this got paid more than that, they should be laughing as they run from a Hollywood producer who just got grifted good.  We should pay writers, but this movie was not worth the paper it was printed on.
I do have one compliment for A Good Day to Die Hard.  It doesn't waste anytime.  No backstory, No connections, No introductions, Just Action. (sub par action....but).  The movie just starts in Russia.  No explanation.  They end up going to Chernobyl.  Mostly, just because.  Oh and they don't even try to break apart that Chernobyl is in the Ukraine and not Russia.  It would be a 12 hour drive or rough 600 miles and they accomplish this in one cut. It's literally the distance from Minneapolis to Arkansas.

On a scale of 1 doll to 50 dolls nested inside of each other, I give A Good Day to Die Hard 1.7 out of 5 stars.   

1 comment:

  1. I agree this film sucks, it and Blade III both need to be exiled from their respective franchises never to be seen or heard again.

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