Film Summary DCCLXVIII (A Good Day to Die Hard)

 

So I mentioned in Die-hard 4 that the Justin Timberlake character was whinying about older music. 
Then He makes himself sound like a self-appointed jackass by going on about how; The news is owned by a small group of corporate conglomerates who only give you Pacific information, thus creating a very particular narrative. 
And it got me thinking (and this might be a little tin-foil downtown conspiracy) but. 
Have major Studios or certain entertainment venues purposely put in hyper annoying self-absorbed critical assholes to purposely play down the importance of our ever single monopolized media conglomerates.

Like I read that sentence back to myself and I think I sound like the stupid Justin Timberlake character but then that's kind of proving the point doesn't it. 
Purposely making fun of people that are critical so that we ourselves do not want to be critical. 
Or at least scoff at the idea of other doing it and than think back to a lazy Die Hard movie where they couldn't be bothered to give the character any actual personality or emotions so they just made him a 'up his own ass twit'.
Or maybe it was just a screenwriter who didn't give a damn about this particular movie, fulling in fake emotion with mouthy attitude.

I went on a big spiel about all of that because then I wouldn't have to write so much about Die Hard 5. An incredibly basic, uninspired ''thriller'' action flick.
 I thought Die Hard 4 didn't feel like a Die Hard movie. 
There's elements of 4 that work with what DieHard was. 
This movie is just a weird spy Thriller thing where Bruce Willis's kid is supposed to be the main action star and Bruce Willis is the grumpy but assertive father figure who comes along for some reason. 
I'm not entirely sure why he's even here. 
He gets sent by his detective buddy from back home to go and check up on his son in Moscow. 
But what the heck was he supposed to do. 
He (the son) was in court at the time. You have to go through whatever Russian jurisdiction would Mandate of him and then he'd either be released back to the United States or stuck in a Russian prison. 

Bruce Willis being there has no effect on the legality of the Russian system. 
And then he spends most of the movie talking about being on vacation anyways. Which I guess is supposed to be a kind of offhand joke but it starts to sound more sincere as the movie goes on. 
Then there's the chemistry between Bruce Willis and whoever is kid supposed to be (I'm not looking up the actors name). 
And they don't work well with each other at all. It might be more the fault of the direction or the script. But neither one of them seems to be all that great here. 
Bruce Willis gave up so long ago but I don't even know if he can go back to decent acting. 
Please prove me wrong Bruce Willis!
Also I don't call him McLane in this movie cuz he's definitely not that anymore.

And you know what the kicker is. 

I like this movie more than Die Hard 4. 
It's generic and I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to watch it again. But I'll take it over the last movie. 
Bruce Willis may not have Much Chemistry with this random guy who's supposed to be his kid, but it's better than freaking Justin Timberlake. 
That movie felt almost painful for me to watch. This was just more mundane. And it points it was a bit laughable. 
Especially when they have to drive from Moscow to freaking to Chernobyl. I know most people don't really give a damn about geography but they are hundreds of miles apart from each other. You have to travel out of Russia, halfway through Ukraine and then around a large lake before you can ever get to that City. 
I looked it up it takes something like 12 hours to drive straight there. Imagine going from Washington DC to Chicago. 
That's a long trip.

To give the movie one positive it had some decent action choreography driving scenes. Is a little bit of computer trickery in there, but there's some legitimate cars getting smashed up for our amusement.

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