A Good Day to Die Hard

                This fifth installment of the Die Hard series takes place in Russia.  Our hero John McClane (Bruce Willis) is trying to find his estranged son Jack (Jai Courtney).  When he locates him in Moscow facing murder charges, McClane gets on a plane and goes to rescue his son.  When he arrives, however he finds that things are not quite what they seem and saving the day might not be so simple this time.

I am a huge Die Hard fan and was really looking forward to this one.  I have to say I was pretty disappointed.  The story is poorly written and the characters are not compelling, even our favorite cowboy, John McClane, was not himself and lacked the snarky punch-lines and sarcastic come-backs.  The character of his son is a throwaway and the villain is not the adversary that we have come to expect from a Die Hard movie.  The action scenes are absurd rather than exciting and so badly edited that it is difficult to tell what’s going on, especially in the chase scene.  The only saving grace is that it is only an hour and a half out of your life.  It pains me greatly to say this, but skip the new Die Hard movie.