A Good Day to Die Hard (Blu-ray / DVD + Digital Copy)

Oh for gosh sakes....by the fifth go round there are still people who expect the movie to hit all the first movie's notes. Even movies have to move on! I think this is one wicked action movie and having John McClane go full circle and be the whining stand around is a hoot in my book! Besides he snaps out of it in about 5 minutes as only John would! Bruce Willis doesn't do anything by half measures but he does everything with sly glee in his eye and with that wily delivery of his. It's a really fun show to watch because of him and this new situation he's in with his ne'er do well son arrested and facing the death penalty or life in a Russian Prison!!. Cut em some slack guys. I for one love it and I bet I'm not alone. (and all those other reviewers who don't feel this is Die Hard material and didn't find anything to Marvel at...are probably wasting their time looking for the cameo by Stan Lee). Don't let them spoil your fun. Dad riding to the rescue and getting himself smack dab in the middle of a mess of international proportions not to mention having Dad spoil his son's big mission in Moscow is grist for the Die Hard mill and boy do they grind that grain down. The opening action sequence alone is worth the price of admission with a car chase that has to be seen to be believed! The one liners firing back and forth between Dad and Junior are rapid fire entertainment at its best! The plot also cleverly mirrors their own angst with it's set up of Father and Daughter and makes the goings on even more pointed in the end. Get the movie and have a really exciting evening with Bruce and his new domestic crisis as only it could happen to John McClane. It's great!!

"Do you look for trouble to get into? Or does it just find you?"If you weren't a fan of the series up to this point, don't bother. If you have the attention span of a goldfish and can't stop texting long enough to actually pay attention, don't bother. If you actually think "reality TV" is real... never mind.As deep as you want to look there is something to find in this film.Action junkies who live for the thrill of explosions and gunfire will see it. There is the obligatory femme fatale eye candy, although the trailer showed more skin than the actual film. There is an underlying message that success lies in getting up off the ground when you take the punch. And there is a prodigal son motif. IF, that is, you care to actually stop, look, and listen.Any story, though, contains an implicit contract. The listener agrees to a suspension of disbelief as long as the teller doesn't push it too far. The story teller agrees to push right to the line of that disbelief but not cross it.Usually follow up films will cross that line. And the more films in the family, the more likely the line will be crossed.I will be the first to admit that somewhere around the third film, I fell into the category of "how much crap can happen to one guy?" I felt that the envelope had been pushed too far.However, as usual, when the "critics" said it was bad, I said, "well, then I'll probably like it". And, I'm glad I did.This film succeeds. It presses against the boundary of "no it didn't" without quite crossing it. You didn't really expect an orange to fall from an apple tree did you?As far as I'm concerned, it was A Good Day to Die Hard.

Maybe the wrong people have been watching this movie; that may explain all those negative reviews. Gone With the Wind is a masterpiece of a movie, but to me it was boring---it's just not my type of movie. Well, A Good Day to Die Hard is a GREAT action movie and nothing else!!! It's not philosophical, it's not dramatic, it does not have a deep plot, and it may not even make sense. That's okay. But it's FUN !! Lots of incredible action, gun-fire, car-chases, crashes. It's hard to catch all the details. The plot, as others have opined, is thin, but it keeps the story moving so that the directors can insert more action sequences. Acting is good, too, even though it is mostly (surprise!) of the macho-guy type. A few comical moments are interspersed here and there to add variety. IF YOU ARE AN ACTION MOVIE FAN YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. If you watch this movie for any other reason you will give it a one-star rating. So, be fair to this movie and to yourself and watch Les Miserables instead.