A Good day to Die Hard

Wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Story of my life.
                                                                               - John Mclane

John Mclane is in the wrong movie with the wrong director and a wrong script this time.

As a die hard fan of the Die Hard series, I am heartbroken. The fifth installment is the worst of the series. Thanks to the weak storyline, dumb villains and real insane action sequences.

Every action movie needs a good villain. A Good Day to Die Hard has none. The villains are dumb and then they die (I can hear Hans Gruber and Simon Gruber laughing in the skies at these guys). All the earlier 4 installments had a cool, calculative negative character each, who were always one step ahead of John Mclane with their evil plans which made me fall in love with the characters.

John Mclane is one of the best characters ever created in the world of Cinema (all thanks to the genius John McTiernan). Skip Woods story missed the whole essence of the character buildup of John Mclane, an every day cop who ends up chasing the bad guys because of his wrong timing. John Mclane is not a superhero. The earlier movies were fun with watching him get caught in the odd situation, get wounded, be vulnerable and them come out victorious with the Mclane charm which was completely missing in Die Hard 5

The only thing I enjoyed in the movie was the 10 minute car chase sequence with cars being blown and thrown into air in the middle of a traffic jam. Sadly, the rest of the movie sucks with a weak storyline and nonsensical action sequences. Bruce willis still has the charm of John Mclane, but the movie doesnot live upto the standards. You will be blown by the stupidity of Skip Woods (Writer) and John Moore (Director). I missed the old school action of fire hose swing, air duct crawl, kill a helicopter with a car, throw a man down the elevator shaft, fight bare feet on glass, use fire extinguisher as a missile which only John McTiernan (Director of Die Hard- 1 and Die Hard with Vengeance) or Renny Hall (Director of Die Hard 2) or even Len Wiseman (director of Die Hard 4) could deliver.

25 years of the series and I will not let it Die with this movie and in this fashion. Bruce Willis - get the earlier directors to work on the 6th installment with a better storyline, a worthy villain and old school action. 

Listen up Skip Woods and John Moore - Yippee-Ki-Yay - Mother F*****s!!