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A Good Day to Die Hard [2013] (1 disc) ... |  | |
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Length: | 98 minutes (1 hour 38 minutes) | MPAA Rating: | R | Sorting Category: | Action | Sorting Tub: | Golf |
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Synopsis: John McClane travels to Russia to help out his wayward son, Jack. Events soon get out of hand, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces.
Reaction: Needs at least one more good action sequence. What's here is okay. Not the best, but okay. It's just way too short by far.
Personal Rating: 5/10 |
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Random Trivia For This Title: - Becomes the 4th out of the 5 films to feature an exploding helicopter, but if you count planes, then all five films have had an aircraft explode in mid air.
- At 98 minutes, this is the shortest film in the series after Die Hard 2: Die Harder.
- This was the first [Die Hard] film where the original script was explicitly written as an entry in the [Die Hard] series. The first Die Hard film in 1988 was based on a novel by Roderick ThorpRoderick Thorp where the screenplay had originally been a possible vehicle for Arnold SchwarzeneggerArnold Schwarzenegger as a sequel to Commando. Die Hard 2 was first written out as a script based on Walter WagerWalter Wager's novel '58 Minutes' with the story of a man having to save his wife when she onboard a doomed passenger flight fused into a Die Hard-based narrative. Die Hard With A Vengeance famously took its basic idea from Jonathan HensleighJonathan Hensleigh's screenplay Simon Says (about a man being targeted by someone he did something terrible to but then forgot existed). And Live Free or Die Hard was retro-fitted from the original screenplay WW3.com (based on the article "A Farewell to Arms" by [?] John Carlin), which was nearly filmed on its own merits before the 9/11 terrorist attacks led 20th Century Fox to put a hold on the project while they figured out how and when a film about terrorism in the U.S. could be viable, if ever.
- Aaron PaulAaron Paul, Liam HemsworthLiam Hemsworth, James Badge DaleJames Badge Dale, [?] Paul Walker, Ben FosterBen Foster, [?] Shiloh Fernandez, [?] Milo Ventimiglia, Paul DanoPaul Dano, [?] Steven R. McQueen, and D.J. CotronaD.J. Cotrona were considered to play John McClane's son. The role ultimately was earned by Jai CourtneyJai Courtney.
- Bruce WillisBruce Willis is the only actor to appear in all five [Die Hard] films. Furthermore, he is also the only person on the crew to be involved in the making of all five films.
- [?] Noam Murro was originally the director, but his commitment to the film 300: Rise of an Empire prevented him from working on this film. Other directors considered including Joe CornishJoe Cornish, Justin LinJustin Lin and [?] Nicolas Winding Refn.
- When Chagarin visits Komorov in the prison, Komorov plays a white chess piece before flipping to the black chess side of the board. This of course hints his duality later in the film.
- In the UK, digital copies of the film were delivered to cinemas with the fake title "Simon Says", a phrase that plays a major part in the third installment, Die Hard: With a Vengeance.
- This is the first "Die Hard" film where Bruce WillisBruce Willis' character does not kill the main antagonist.
- Bruce WillisBruce Willis has openly stated he would like to bring back Bonnie BedeliaBonnie Bedelia to the series. She originally played the character of Holly Gennaro McClane, the wife of Bruce WillisBruce Willis' character John McClane in the first two films of the [Die Hard] series, but didn't appear in the last two.
- This is the first [Die Hard] sequel since part 2 where a performer (besides Bruce WillisBruce Willis) has reprised their role in an obligatory cameo. Mary Elizabeth WinsteadMary Elizabeth Winstead reprises her role of Lucy McClane from Live Free Or Die Hard. Besides Winstead and Willis, the only other actors to appear more than once in the "Die Hard" films are Reginald VelJohnsonReginald VelJohnson, William AthertonWilliam Atherton, and Bonnie BedeliaBonnie Bedelia (who all appeared in the first two entries), Anthony PeckAnthony Peck who played a young cop in the first and Ricky Walsh in the third film and Aldis HodgeAldis Hodge who played Zeus' nephew Raymond in Die Hard: With a Vengeance, and CIA Agent Foxy in this film (wearing military fatigues and telling Jack his window for extraction is lost).
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