A Good Day to Die Hard Review (April Fools 2013) (Updated)

A Good Day to Die Hard


Release Date: 21st March 2013 - Australia


Production Companies
20th Century Fox
TSG Entertainment (in association with)
Giant Pictures
Dune Entertainment (made in
association with)
Ingenious Media (produced in
association with)

Distribution
20th Century Fox Australia


Genre: Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 98 minutes


Budget: $92,000,000

Box Office Gross: $304,654,182
(Worldwide)


Plot Summary
John McClane travels to
Russia to help out his
seemingly wayward son,
Jack, only to discover
that Jack is a CIA
operative working to
prevent a nuclear-
weapons heist.


Cast
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Jai Courtney - Jack McClane
Sebastian Koch - Yuri
Komarov
Mary Elizabeth Winstead -
Lucy McClane
Yulia Snigir - Irina
Radivoje Bukvic - Alik
Cole Hauser - Mike Collins
Amaury Nolasco - Murphy
Sergey Kolesnikov - Chagarin
Roman Luknar - Anton
Melissa Tang - Lucas
Catherine Kresge - Neiderbrook
April Grace - Sue Easton
Edit Balazsovits - Masseuse
Scott Michael Campbell - Campbell
Aldis Hodge - Foxy
Joe Massingill - Pac-Man
Jesse Burch - Smoker
Justin Smith - Meyers
Martin Hindy - Mako

Crew
Director - John Moore
Based on Characters - Roderick Thorp
Writer - Skip Thorn
Executive Producers - Tom Karnowski,
Jason Keller & Skip Woods
Producers - Wyck Godfrey
& Alex Young
Co-Producers - Stephen J. Eads,
Peter Veverka & David Willis
Casting Directors - Deborah Aquila,
Zsolt Csutak & Tricia Wood
Production Designer - Daniel T. Dorrance
Costume Designer - Bojana Nikitovic
Director of Photography - Jonathan Sela
Director of Photography: Second Unit/
Second Unit Director - Jonathan Taylor
Stunt Coordinator - Steve M. Davison
Special Effects Supervisor/Coordinator - Gerd Nefzer
Special Effects Supervisor: Second Unit - Uli Nefzer
Visual Effects Supervisors - Everett Burrell,
Randy Goux & Viktor Miller
Visual Effects Supervisor: FactoryVFX - Eric D. Christensen
& Radley Teruel
Visual Effects Coordinator - Vanessa Joyce
Visual Effects Consultant - Bill Westenhofer
Film Editor - Dan Zimmerman
Music - Marco Beltrami


Review
Remember on my 'E.T.' review that I was planning to do a new review post of 'The Return of the King' but tricked you all, April Fools! And I know that it's more funny than the last joke about Jon Favreau directing a new 'Thunderbirds' film. This day, it isn't a review for the best 'Lord of the Rings' film, it's instead about the fifth recent 'Die Hard' instalment.

I know confused is a word I throw around a lot, but there a few movies with plots that are confusing as the plot of 'A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD'. This is one of the reasons why critics became disinterested with this action film cause there are so many pointless plot twists such as the revelation of the real villain in the story. The shooting and explosions in the action sequences are spectacular and still stellar to fit this sequel, and although the father-son teaming up seemed like an interesting plot device but I feel it was poorly executed in this movie.

Overall, this sequel is a real average blockbuster and I wasn't keen on watching 'A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD' but in the end, I ended up seeing the entire film out of loyalty to the series. I just wish this feature would have been better, it was left unmade.

Star rating: (3/5) Average

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