10 Movie Franchises That Screwed Up Their Final Part

6. A Good Day To Die Hard

A Good Day To Die Hard Bruce Willis Jai Courtney
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The first Die Hard film is a classic with the second good, the third average, and the fourth bad. So by the time it got to the fifth, you knew exactly what it was going to be like.

Released in 2013 and slapped with the title: A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth instalment of the franchise is, by a long long way, its worst. Bruce Willis is back as John McClane and, for good measure, his estranged son is introduced with Jai Courtney doing his best with a character who was mysteriously never mentioned before.

The plot is a mess, the acting horrific and characters who ran out of steam back in the 90s are brought back and given a shambolic script to do their best with. And for those fans who grew up cherishing Hans Gruber, the woeful Sebastian Koch’s baddie Komarov is a poor stand-in.

Bruce Willis supposedly wants a Die Hard prequel but, come on, would that really be a good idea? John McClane’s story has been told and, given how much of a shambles Die Hard 5 was, it is definitely best to leave it at that.

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