I'm a big fan of the Die Hard movies. Why? Because I believe that they are one of the best action movie series ever, and I love watching John McClane kick ass in a very believable way. So having said this, I think the latest Die Hard movie was just a parody of all the previous Die Hard movies. I wasn't entirely sure if I was watching Die Hard, or Terminator 2.0.
Here is the plot in a few sentences: 1. Father goes to Russia because he finds out son is in jail. 2. A few minutes after arriving, Father takes over the city in a Mercedes, even though he has no idea who the good guys and bad guys are. 3. Son helps a prisoner escape who has information for the CIA, but everyone at the safe house dies and son is stuck with his father. Father still doesn't know who good guys and bad guys are but either way he likes shooting and killing people. 4. Prisoner's daughter is bad, prisoner has no information for CIA, he is after all a bad guy all of a sudden. 5. After a quick drive from Moscow to Chernobyl (only 900 km), everyone dies, of bombing, shooting, falling, suffocating, beheading. Except the father and son, who survive thanks to a nice clean swimming pool conveniently located in Chernobyl.
Here is the plot that they should have used to make it look like a real Die Hard movie.
1. Father finds out that son is on death row in Russia. He decide to go save his son. 2. When he gets to Russia he goes straight to the police to try to find help for his son, the police laugh at him, and have no intention to help him. Father tries to prove his son's innocence, meanwhile he discovers that son is an undercover agent for the CIA. By the time he finds out that, the CIA wants to stop him from getting involved. Father ignores them and goes to help his son anyway, who meanwhile escapes with the other prisoner. 3. CIA agents in Russia get killed while they have the father detained by the Russian bad guys. Father escapes, goes after son, who by now is all alone in the mission, no one even knows that he is still alive. They finally meet up and they get betrayed by the prisoner they were tying to protect. 4. They kill all the bad guys, with the help of a Russian police officer who wanted to arrest the father all along as an accomplice in his son's crime, but who eventually realizes they are the good guys. The end.
I don't know about you but for me a story like that sounds more like a John McClane type of situation than the Terminator 2.0 type of movie. I was very disappointed, and I'm very surprised that Bruce Willis signed up for it after reading the script. I wanted more story, but I only got lots of special effects. Sad that the series ended like this! But hey at least the family is reunited finally!
Here is the plot in a few sentences: 1. Father goes to Russia because he finds out son is in jail. 2. A few minutes after arriving, Father takes over the city in a Mercedes, even though he has no idea who the good guys and bad guys are. 3. Son helps a prisoner escape who has information for the CIA, but everyone at the safe house dies and son is stuck with his father. Father still doesn't know who good guys and bad guys are but either way he likes shooting and killing people. 4. Prisoner's daughter is bad, prisoner has no information for CIA, he is after all a bad guy all of a sudden. 5. After a quick drive from Moscow to Chernobyl (only 900 km), everyone dies, of bombing, shooting, falling, suffocating, beheading. Except the father and son, who survive thanks to a nice clean swimming pool conveniently located in Chernobyl.
Here is the plot that they should have used to make it look like a real Die Hard movie.
1. Father finds out that son is on death row in Russia. He decide to go save his son. 2. When he gets to Russia he goes straight to the police to try to find help for his son, the police laugh at him, and have no intention to help him. Father tries to prove his son's innocence, meanwhile he discovers that son is an undercover agent for the CIA. By the time he finds out that, the CIA wants to stop him from getting involved. Father ignores them and goes to help his son anyway, who meanwhile escapes with the other prisoner. 3. CIA agents in Russia get killed while they have the father detained by the Russian bad guys. Father escapes, goes after son, who by now is all alone in the mission, no one even knows that he is still alive. They finally meet up and they get betrayed by the prisoner they were tying to protect. 4. They kill all the bad guys, with the help of a Russian police officer who wanted to arrest the father all along as an accomplice in his son's crime, but who eventually realizes they are the good guys. The end.
I don't know about you but for me a story like that sounds more like a John McClane type of situation than the Terminator 2.0 type of movie. I was very disappointed, and I'm very surprised that Bruce Willis signed up for it after reading the script. I wanted more story, but I only got lots of special effects. Sad that the series ended like this! But hey at least the family is reunited finally!