Where Bruce Willis was once one of the most fun and bankable action stars on planet Earth, “A Good Day to Die Hard” is a movie starring an old man who is clearly unhappy that people are still forcing him to make these types of movies.
Willis looks completely disinterested in everything around him for much of the film’s running time. That’s probably good, however, as the story is completely incomprehensible.
John McClane must go to Russia to rescue his CIA son from Russian terrorists who want… something. The film also shies away from what made “Die Hard” special in the first place – the fact that it didn’t star a character who was an inherent action hero, but an underdog.
“A Good Day to Die Hard” is just another bad, boring action film in a long, sad history of these types of movies. The only thing that “A Good Day to Die Hard” is actually good for is making people appreciate what used to be the worst film in the series, “Live Free or Die Hard.” That movie doesn’t seem quite so bad by comparison.