10 Most Insufferable Film Sequels Since 2000
7. A Good Day To Die Hard
Way to go, Twentieth Century Fox: you took The Greatest Action Movie and gave it a ginger-haired stepchild for its 25th anniversary. Most people would’ve bought a gold watch.
Someone must’ve thought that teaming the director of the Omen remake with the screenwriter of The A-Team would yield great things, but the action is by the numbers, the zingers are forced and even Bruce Willis seems strangely subdued, as if his appearance was due more to a contractual obligation rather than a desire to return to the franchise.
If you remember the Die Hard sequels for anything other than large scale action sequences, it’s probably for McClane’s verbal sparring with the villains, most notably Hans Gruber in the original. A Good Day To Die Hard has none of these things. What it has in abundance is a whole lot of blah: a blah villain, blah dialogue and a blah chase sequence. To make matters worse, Jai Courtenay is in it.