20 Movies Since 2010 So Awful They're Actually Harrowing
14. A Good Day To Die Hard
Die Hard is one of cinema’s best action films, and after a good second film, a fabulous third film and a criminally underrated fourth film, this happened.
John McClane goes to Russia after learning his CIA agent son (played terribly by Jai Courtney) is in trouble and finds some villains planning to... here’s the thing: it’s very difficult to know what the villains in this film are trying to do. The movie is simplistic and brainless yet very convoluted at the same time, which is maybe the only impressive thing about it.
Inexplicably this was given to John Moore and Skip Woods. Moore can’t direct to save his life, and Woods not only can’t write decent dialogue, but his best idea of a joke is McClane shouting “I’m on vacation!” when he’s not even on vacation.
A horrendously generic action film with no human touch, this is just one of those films where you aren’t engaged emotionally in any way, and it has ruined the beloved franchise. I’ve also got a horrible feeling the only reason they chose a Russian storyline was because of the ‘Yippie-ki-yay mother Russia’ pun.