10 Most Disappointing Sequels Ever

3. A Good Day To Die Hard

a-good-day-to-die-hard While Die Hard 4.0 (or Live Free and Die Hard) was not the greatest film ever, it wasn't actually that bad. It had just about enough Die Hard-ness to satisfy fans and it did have a police car being used to destroy a helicopter which was undeniably cool. So although nobody was deliriously excited for A Good Day To Die Hard it should have at least been good enough to bear the Die Hard name, what we got though was an absurd action film starring Bruce Willis as some sort of indestructible superhero. The John McClane we know and love is nowhere to be seen in this film, replaced with a bald bloke with a gun and moaning about being on vacation (he wasn't on fu***ng vacation was he? He went there to get his son out of jail) and surviving car crashes that would liquefy everyone else. The original Die Hard is not a full on action film and McClane is not indestructible, he slashes his feet open on shards of glass, this just isn't a Die Hard film and boasts some of the worst dialogue ever committed to Final Draft. But then the writer Skip Woods was also responsible for X-Men Origins: Wolverine so this shouldn't come as a massive surprise.
 
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