As a straight forward action film, "A Good Day to Die Hard" serves it's purpose well, and for that I could not fault it. It jumps straight into the action with a couple of explosions and a very well shot car chase. John McClane gets in some good one-liners, and some more things explode. The thing that really bugged me about the film was the inability to drudge up any emotion toward the relationship of the characters. The thing that made the first "Die Hard" work so well is that on top of an amazing action piece, it managed to make you care about McClane, his deteriorating marriage, and the possibility of orphaning their children. "Good Day" gives the relationships, and how you are supposed to feel about them, but the writers breeze by them so fast that it doesn't register, and Jai Courtney (playing Jack McClane) is such a lifeless actor, that it's hard to care about anything he does. At only 97 minutes, it felt too short to sustain anything between action sequences, but the action was a lot of fun, if not completely unbelievable.
Grade: C-
3D: N/A
Easter Egg: No
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch
Director: John Moore
Writer(s): Skip Woods - Original Characters: Roderick Thorp
RT: 97 min
Rating: R for violence and language
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