10 Worst Movies From Otherwise Great Franchises
1. A Good Day To Die Hard - Die Hard Franchise
Other Films: Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard with a Vengeance and Die Hard 4.0.
This one was genuinely heart-breaking.
Die Hard was, prior to this fifth film, maybe cinema's best action franchise. Die Hard, Die Hard with a Vengeance and the ridiculously underrated Die Hard 4.0 (yes, the PG-13 rating was irritating but a rating doesn't make a film bad) were all fantastic and Die Hard 2, while slightly weaker, was still very good overall, so it had been an unusually consistent film series. Then, we got this.
A Good Day to Die Hard is possibly one of the worst Hollywood action films of all time. Taken on its own, it's an obnoxious, incoherently plotted, tension-free, stunningly dull, badly directed and abysmally written dumpster fire with about as much charm, warmth and likeability as the average 1980s slasher movie villain, but when you compare it to the other Die Hard films... yep. It's truly painful.
With Die Hard 6 nowhere in sight, A Good Day to Die Hard has pretty much killed this beloved franchise dead. Honestly, this might just be the worst entry in a great film franchise ever.