10 Truly Awful Movies That Made Obscene Amounts Of Money

5. A Good Day To Die Hard (2013)

Budget: $92m Total Box Office: $304.6m US Home Video Sales: $25.8m 25 years on from John McTiernan's action classic that launched Bruce Willis into the Hollywood A-list, John McClane returned to screens with the worst entry yet in the Die Hard franchise. Forgetting everything that made the original trilogy great in the first place, the fifth installment is a series of implausible set-pieces strung together by a terrible script and a thoroughly disinterested performance from Willis in his signature role. Live Free or Die Hard took a lot of flak when it was released, but it was a hell of a lot better than this. Once the ordinary guy in extraordinary circumstances, John McClane has been reduced to a two-dimensional, indestructible superman that dispenses tired one-liners in between dispatching bad guys. The plot is ridiculous and riddled with holes, journeyman director John Moore brings little style to the proceedings, the chemistry between Willis and Jai Courtney is non-existent and the CGI-drenched action scenes stretch the boundaries of both physics and credibility. The movie opened at number one with a domestic debut of $28.4m, but quickly fizzled out and became the lowest-grossing entry in the franchise by some distance at the US box office, earning only half as much as the fourth installment. The enduring popularity of the franchise saw A Good Day To Die Hard earn in excess of $300m worldwide and sell over 1.3m copies on home video in the US, despite being the worst-reviewed movie yet by some margin. Bruce Willis has claimed he wants to make a sixth Die Hard before retiring the character; after this, I hope he doesn't bother.