Synopsis
Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes.
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Cast
- Bruce WillisJohn McClane
- Jai CourtneyJack McClane
- Sebastian KochYuri Komarov
- Yuliya SnigirIrina Komarov
- Sergey KolesnikovViktor Chagarin
- Radivoje BukvićAlik
- Mary Elizabeth WinsteadLucy McClane
- Cole HauserMike Collins
- Martin HindyMako
- Roman LuknárAnton
Recommendations
- 50
Arizona Republic
While some of the sequels have been entertaining enough, A Good Day to Die Hard signals that it may be a better day for John McClane to retire. - 50
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
To paraphrase a classic of Reagan-era cinema, A Good Day to Die Hard is a bad day to stop sniffing glue. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
In the way of workaday flicks built around long-in-the-tooth badasses, Die Hard 5 leaves room for McClane to make a few jokes about his thinning hair and to rue that he wasn't a better father when his kids were growing up. Oh, boo-hoo. - 50
Variety
Willis still packs that rapscallion charm, balancing his wisecracking, reluctant-hero shtick with the unstoppable, all-American quality that earned the original film its title. But the chemistry between him and Courtney is nonexistent, with the younger thesp, who makes co-star Cole Hauser look expressive, adding so little to the equation, one can only hope the studio doesn't plan to pass the franchise on to him. - 38
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Loud and tedious, “Die Hard 5” is a shaky-cam/Sensuround blast of bullets and bombs, digital explosions and death defying feats of defying death. - 30
The New York Times
Everything that made the first “Die Hard” memorable — the nuances of character, the political subtext, the cowboy wit — has been dumbed down or scrubbed away entirely. - 25
Slant Magazine
The film feels like it was reverse-engineered from its "Yippee Ki-Yay Mother Russia" tagline, a wholly generic international actioner barely distinguished by the presence of Bruce Willis's banner hero. - 25
New York Post
Actually, Bruce, what stinks is the script — which is woefully lacking the kind of one-liners and memorable bad guys that helped make working-class hero McClane so iconic he’s still around after 25 years. Even the action sequences are pretty much by the numbers this time.
