The best thing about the new Die Hard (A Good Day to Die Hard) is that it has a lot of great stunt work that looks practical. They did some fantastic work to make the stunts pretty amazing… but the actual movie is just dull and lifeless. All the action in the world doesn’t matter if you can’t edit it together so that it’s exciting… or inventive… or even creative – and if you leave out a good storyline and forget to give any reason to care about all the noise, then it’s just a lot of noise.

Here’s how dull the action was to me: I started to doze off in the big action set piece at the end of the movie. Oops. It doesn’t help that John McClane has long stopped being the “Everyman” action hero and turned into a superhero who occasionally mumbles things to make us think this is the same guy from the earlier movies (Die Hard 4 had a similar problem but the script was overall better, even if the villain wasn’t great – but at least he was better than the non-presence the villain was in this turkey).

Oh, and it’s set in Moscow and Chernobyl… because if you set a movie in Russia, that’s about all we Americans must know about it (derp – and Chernobyl ain’t in Russia… oops).

A serious loser that Bruce Willis should be ashamed of given it’s a continuation of the series that made him a star. Die Hard is too great a movie for this.

Score: 58