A Good Day To Die Hard is the fifth installment if the Die Hard series. And I’m probably the only American that hasn’t seen any of the earlier films. All I know is “Yippee-ki-yay” and Alan Rickman. I know, I’m a bad reviewer; 10 points from Hufflepuff and all that. But in the interest of making lemonade out of my lack of knowledge, here I am, tapping away.
For anyone else that has been living under a rock since 1988, card-carrying badass John McClane (that’d be Bruce Willis y’all) finally decides that he’s kicked enough American badguy tuchas and heads to Russia to track down his estranged son Jack (played by Jai Courtney, Spartacus). But there’s a problem — isn’t there always? — Jack is in prison. But surprise; Jack’s actually a CIA operative whose orders are to rescue former Russian mobster Komarov (Sebastian Koch), a man who has a file that is very important to US Intelligence. But Komarov won’t go without his daughter Irina (Yuliya Snigir). Meanwhile mobster baddies are breathing down their neck. Guess who steps in to help sonny-boy?
Do you need to know anything about the earlier films before you see A Good Day To Die Hard? Nope, not at all. Did I like it? Yippee-ki-YES.
