Bruce Willis is currently 60-years-old and still attempting to hold on to the action hero persona that made him a household name during the ʻ80s and ʻ90s. In this current climate, we have a new slew of action stars who are younger, more chiseled and far more believable than Willis, who is five years shy of retirement age. It beggars belief that an actor - who has made some fine movies in his career - would still be interested in making a sixth edition of a franchise whoʼs finest days are firmly behind it. In 2013, we were given the terribly named A Good Day To Die Hard, a movie we all wanted to be good, or at least decent, or at least watchable. Instead, it was a hopelessly painful reminder that this franchise is actually still alive. So, why an earth would producers want to inflict a sixth movie on to us? Well, it may be down to the fact that some dumb-wits in Hollywood still believe they can sell this character to audiences. Even though the fifth movie performed poorly in the United States, it still managed to draw $237.3 million from foreign territories, and when a movie turns in a significant profit like that, itʼs a no-brainer another chapter is in the works. So maybe theyʼre not so dumb after all? Hereʼs a quick note to whoever ends up penning the script: it shouldnʼt be a hard job making it better than the last one.
