Watched Die Hard 5 a few days ago.
Oh dear.
I love the Die Hard series - well I loved the first two, and thought 4 was okay, didn't much like #3 though - but they should've put this to bed after four films.
Contains minor spoilers:
The Die Hard films have never had the most involving of scripts, but this film takes the piss. The action scenes (and there's lots, of course) are more ridiculous than ever - requiring you to drop all pretence of reality and imagine you're in some alternate universe where physics and human endurance are completely alien. At one point your man McClane commandeers a truck and drives it up a ramp and over the roofs of about fifty or sixty cars sat in traffic. Like you do. He's got no solid reason for doing this, other than he senses something fishy is going on - so it's okay for him to cause a couple million pounds of damage to peoples' and public property and probably kill or seriously main around a hundred people by improvising that shortcut. If I'm on the way to my boring job, and there's a big traffic jam I'm having a bad enough day already. I don't need you driving a fucking tank over the roof of my car, breaking my spine while you're at it, just because you want to ask your son if he's okay. Fuck you, McClane. Fuck you and all of your family.
And then there's the script. I guess they had a script. I think it was scrawled on the back of a fag packet, though. You've got Bruce Willis just shouting "Jesus" over and over throughout the whole film, and the guy who plays his son doesn't much like his dad - as he makes clear every time he opens his mouth (apart from the end of the film, where they're the best of pals, natch...).
Acting wise, it's hard to comment. With a script and plot as bad as this it's impossible to make it much better or much worse with your acting. Somehow they contrive to do so, though - and I don't mean they made it better. I've seen more animated mannequins ffs.
Avoid. 3/10
