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In 1988 the know-it-alls in Hollywood laughed when it was learned that 20th Century Fox had given $5 million to a television actor to star in a film whose lead character had already been offered to, and turned down by, such stars as Burt Reynolds...

One hot summer day in 1988, I emerged from a movie theater exhilarated by what I had just experienced. The film in question was the original Die Hard, one of the best thrillers of the decade and, one could argue, an all-time Top 10 entry for the genre.

A Good Day to Die Hard is the Superman IV: The Quest for Peace of the Die Hard series. It is Jaws: The Revenge, The Next Karate Kid, and that movie where Jason Voorhees kills people in a spaceship. It is Jar Jar Binks, Batman's oversized codpiece...

You'd think that by now any global super-terrorist worth their weight in weapons-grade uranium would have a phonebook-thick file on Det. John McClane, NYPD. Curiously undecorated dismantler of plots both foreign and domestic, veteran of the Naktaomi...

A Good Day to Die Hard is an experiment in reductive storytelling. Here is a movie that doesn't even bother to explain the first plot point until about 30 minutes into the movie. Even then, it's not exactly clear what any character is doing, and if...

If “A Good Day to Die Hard” didn’t have the words “Die Hard” in its title, nobody would pay it the slightest bit of attention. It would be just another brainless action film, the kind that’s somehow chaotic and tedious simultaneously, the kind...

A Good Day to Die Hard might be titled Rocky and Bullwinkle Die Hard. Except it's not that subtle. Or that good.

"A Good Day to Die Hard" isn't just the weakest of the "Die Hard" pictures; it's a lousy action movie on its own terms, even without comparing it to the adored 1988 franchise launch starring Bruce Willis as John McClane, the New York cop...

John McClane has a way of elevating any script he’s in. No matter how threadbare the scenario, no matter how many times we’ve seen it before, tossing that old grizzled icon in the middle of it suddenly makes it work.

In A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD, Willis is back as New York City cop John McClane heading out on his most improbable mission yet.

‘Something stinks,” says Bruce Willis’ NYPD detective John McClane just before the first of several heavily telegraphed double-crosses are sprung in the Moscow-set “A Good Day To Die Hard” — the fifth and by far the worst installment in this...

John McClane has changed, and by association, so has the Die Hard series. As a sketch from "The Ben Stiller Show" illustrated long ago, the idea of keeping sequels going with Bruce Willis as the titular hero were always going to get more unbelievable.

As I scrawled in my notes while the end credits for A Good Day to Die Hard were rolling, "That was one of the most singularly ridiculous experiences of my life."

This latest instalment in the venerable franchise sees big Bruce in a foreign clime – dank, dangerous Moscow. His John McClane has to go there to find out what's happened to his son (Courtney), whom he's had no contact with for a couple of years.

Well before John McClane (Bruce Willis) calls his CIA operative son Jack (Jai Courtney) "007 of Plainfield, New Jersey," "A Good Day to Die Hard" already feels more like a Bond movie ("Die-monds Are Forever"?) than what it is, "Die Hard 5."

Tough cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) flies to Russia to check up on his son (Jai Courtney) who has landed in jail—only to learn that Junior is really CIA, and it's all part of his mission to spirit a political prisoner (Sebastian Koch) out of the...

The plot of "A Good Day to Die Hard" has more holes than a 25-year-old pair of favorite socks. But just like those tattered toe covers, there is something fun about the latest in this long-running film series to make you glad it's still around.

Ah jeez. I actually wanted this one to be good. Or at least decent. Or at least a reminder of what got us all fired up about the first Die Hard in 1988. But A Good Day To Die Hard, the fifth in a creatively exhausted series, is total crap.

“A Good Day to Die Hard,” the newest sequel to the action-junkie’s favorite series, “Die Hard,” opened in theaters on Valentine’s Day. However, this is probably not the movie for couples who want to cozy up for a romantic night out.

Yippee Ki-Yuck. Silly, incoherent and cartoonish to a fault, A Good Day to Die Hard foolishly one-ups the escalating chaos and wonton carnage of Len Wiseman’s Live Free or Die Hard instead of calling back to human beats of John McTiernan’s well-oiled...

It was not a good day to die hard. John McClane has returned, but the yip and the ki-yay and everything that follows has been bludgeoned from the aging character. The latest Die Hard movie lacks the energy, the fun and the cleverness of the previous...

You know how it is with John McClane. In A Good Day to Die Hard, the yippee-ki-yay mofo of an ex-cop, now in his 50s and still embodied (after 25 years) by Bruce Willis, may be what passes for an old guy in action-hero years. But McClane still knows how .

Early on in A Good Day to Die Hard comes a prolonged car/truck chase through the clogged streets of Moscow that contains some of the most impressive stunt driving I’ve ever seen in a movie.

The original Die Hard was never comfortable sequel material. Bruce Willis’ protagonist, John McClane, was just an off-duty cop who stumbled onto a large-scale criminal operation and had to improvise his way around it.

Honestly, you are a bit cautious on noting the director's name in the credits. John Moore made Max Payne last, and that was a film which almost finished off the career of Mark Wahlberg.

As he prepares to fly to Moscow to discover why his estranged son Jack has been arrested for murder, John McClane is handed an Idiot’s Travel Guide To Russia by daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).

A Good Day to Die Hard turns out to be a bad day for the venerable action franchise, which, in stretching into its third decade, is starting to look very long in the tooth indeed. In his fifth outing as New York cop John McClane, Bruce Willis appears...

Willis proves that he can still cut it in the action-and-wisecracks department and thankfully the ‘I'm getting too old for this shit’ comments are kept to an acceptable minimum. Similarly, Courtney is excellent as Jack...

You know you're in trouble when an action film opens in Moscow showing a Russian criminal being held prisoner in a cell playing chess by himself. This is the kind of obvious cheesy badly scripted trope A Good Day to Die Hard is rampantly infected with.

REMEMBER those old Mister Magoo cartoons where the doddery old bald guy would blunder around various locations, leaving chaos in his wake while constantly insisting "I'm on vacation"?

Yippee-ki ... whatever. The only thing you need to know about the latest Die Hard movie is that it's another Die Hard movie.

In that 1988 film, Bruce Willis' maverick NYPD cop John McClane scuttled the plans of a band of ruthless European terrorists in a Los Angeles skyscraper, and a franchise was born. 25 years later, in this fifth installment of the high-octane...

As a fan of the first three entries in the Die Hard series I’ve always treated the most recent instalment, Len Wiseman’s execrable Live Free or Die Hard, as a disappointing aberration.

A Good Day to Die Hard is merely masquerading as a Die Hard sequel, much in the same way Hans Gruber once tried to fool John McClane by pretending to be innocent American hostage Bill Clay.

“A Good Day to Die Hard” คือการกลับมาขึ้นจอครั้งที่ 5 ของเจ้าหน้าที่ John McClane หนึ่งในตัวละครที่เป็นที่รู้จักมากที่สุดตัวหนึ่งในโลกภาพยนตร์จากหนังแอคชั่นตระกูล Die Hard ซึ่งหลังจากหนังภาคก่อนอย่าง ‘Live Free or Die Hard’ (2007) ได้เปิดตัว...

How does John McClane arrive anywhere unnoticed? He is, after all, the man who rescued the hostages at Nakatomi Plaza, foiled the escape of General Esperanza, prevented the New York Federal Reserve from being robbed, and saved the US from a crippling...

As this franchise becomes a parody of itself, the action scenes continue to abandon all logic to become bigger and more explosive than before. So while the script has promise as a gritty spy-themed action-comedy, the film is like a battering...