Some films are subjective. While the brilliance of classic films such as Schindler’s List, A Clockwork Orange and more recently films by the Coen brothers cannot be denied, there are some that cause a divide in opinion. One of the most boring, tedious films I have ever seen for example (those who read my blog will know what I am referring to), is actually regarded by some as a brilliant piece of filmmaking. So, on the basis of this I completely ignored the mass of negative reviews and went to see the latest Die Hard, A Good Day to Die Hard. In this case the critics were right.
I left the cinema speechless and in awe. And not the good
type of awe. I was in awe at how such a brilliant action franchise has been destroyed
by a sequel not worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Die Hard. I
honestly wasn’t sure what was worse, the ridiculously poor script, the
completely deadpan acting, or action scenes so over the top they would have
felt out of place in a cartoon. In one
scene for example, Mclane and his son outrun an apache helicopter as a machine gun
obliterates everything in sight, something even Usian Bolt would struggle to do.
A chase sequence in the beginning goes
on for what felt like 20 minutes, and the ending is one of the cheesiest, vomit
inducing, finales I have seen in a long time.
There was no ‘yippie ki yay’ catchphrase, Bruce Willis
looked like he didn’t want to be there, and when the main bad guy falls to his
death he pulls the most unrealistic comically surprised face even Tommy Wiseau
would have had second thoughts about casting him.
It was all over the place, felt like it was quickly
scrambled together after the main action scenes were filmed, and was overall a
miserable sequel to what up to now had been a thoroughly entertaining
franchise.
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