A Good Day To Die Hard
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This is the ultimate Father’s Day movie, so it’s no coincidence that it hit Blu-ray and DVD a couple weeks before the holiday. It’s a great father and son tale, where John McClane (played by Bruce Willis, of course) heads over to post-Soviet Russia to “rescue” his estranged son, Jack McClane (Jai Courtney), who is knee-deep in poop with some nuclear weapons theft action that might lead to the end of the world. What’s new?
The story compels us with “who’s the real good guy?” mystery and intrigue, a beautiful warrior of a daughter sent to rescue a Russian ex-patriot and the action is intense, riveting and fast-paced. Car scenes. Trucks jumping onto trucks off overpasses, guns, bullets and diving out of windows… It lives up to the Die Hard series without succumbing to cliché.
The two discs (and digital High-Def version for portable devices) are loaded with extras. “Maximum McLane” is a pretty fun montage of lines and action from the previous four films in this series. “VFX Sequences” help this reviewer now doubt everything in movies – thanks to the CGI educational material provided. The “Pre-Vis” extra is also educational, with its animation-only sequences. [Fox Home Video] Doug Van Pelt
I don’t have a son, but went to go see this with my oldest daughter … and it was a good bonding moment for us, too.
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