Part 5: The epitome of a failed action movie.

Sydnie 2022-03-22 09:01:31

This article has serious spoilers, so be careful.

After reading Die Hard 12345, the fifth part can be said to be the least nutritious and the most undiscussable. It is hard to imagine that in the 21st century, with such excellent post-production technology and such huge financial support, it is possible to make such a puzzling film.

In the first part, our John was always haunted by terrorists, dealing with them, and getting his identities uncovered through reports from unscrupulous reporters, at least everything went in order, and I even wondered how John got in touch The police are sweating, because I can't guess what will happen in the next second. Can the police find a hijacking in the building when they patrol the first floor? How can John alert the police? Or is there simply no way but to fight alone? That's what attracted me to this movie. At least the movie is "closer to life," as if it could happen at any time. Everyone reacts normally to events.

The second takes place at the airport, where John's wife is unable to land on the plane, and he himself has to deal with the police and gangsters. At least! We can see the passengers at the airport panic when they hear the horror! Everyone reacts normally to events.

The scenes in the third installment were rather lavish and moved to the whole of New York. Wall Street, Midtown Manhattan, parks, all of which may be where we live, and we can also see how the entire city would react if a horrific event did occur. Whether it's the police, students, teachers, or bomb disposal experts, everyone will react normally to the incident. (That's right again). Evacuate, search for bombs or something. John is also on a day trip to New York with Samuel L. Jackson, and we can at least understand that the terrorists are causing a riot in the city for the gold of the Fed.

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People have entered the information age, and everything has to be related to computer and network security. In the fourth part, there was more than one situation: someone stared at the computer screen, various data, codes, and status bars were displayed on the monitor, the keyboard was tapped, and someone muttered words and said Some professional terms are finally passed with phrases like "we were hacked" or "successful, we passed". At least we can see that if something is tampered with, there will be dire consequences, such as power systems, transportation, communications. We can still see the panic that cybercrime brings to the population.

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is like this, I do not I didn't expect too much from the fifth, and I'm not against the simple plot of action movies, but this one hit me too hard.

First of all, the movie opens, wanting to make some "heavy rain" feeling, the music is heavy and hasty: a man is riding a motorcycle, a man is on a pay phone, he hangs up and walks to the nightclub, takes a gun from the table, a man Kissing with another woman...... These plots are really important! Then a man raised his gun and killed a man named Anton... I watched it back and forth three times and I was still confused. I didn't know until later that it was John's son who worked for the CIA. But the first ten minutes were spent in doubt.
Why does the focus at the beginning focus on the feud between a political prisoner and a minister, but it ends with a young man shooting and killing? And what's the point of that woman riding a motorcycle?

There is too much chatter and silence, and even so, the movie is a little over an hour and a half, which further shows that the dialogue outside of the action scenes is dragging time.

I don't even know what the point is when John talks to Sucre. He was going to save the man they were talking about? Or catch this guy? I'm sorry, I really can't understand the sentence "after all, he is my child", I am severely face blind, and I can't remember a character without introduction.

The plot is really unreasonable, and John can go to Russia inexplicably by making any excuses. I didn't find the conversation in the taxi very interesting either, maybe it's because I'm not Russian.

The courtroom can be invaded at will, and there is no one in the house after the explosion. The director was too hasty and did not film the reaction of the people. Yes. When the political prisoners entered the courthouse before, there were so many people watching on the street, but after that they just disappeared from the world. On this point, it is 108,000 miles away from the level of the previous ones. We can only see John and his son going all the way, but we have no way of knowing how ordinary Russians and local police reacted to this incident.

How did John meet his son? Just stopped a truck with flesh and blood on the road! The car also brakes precisely! This Nima has a big brain hole! Just because John dragged on the road for a few minutes, the task could not be completed successfully!

The next thing we see is the drama of the road chase, and in the Russian capital, the traffic problems are the same as ours. Watching me get stuck in a panic, it's not exciting at all, all the obstacles are slammed through rather than through some kind of eye-catching technique. I don't understand, does everyone like to watch this kind of road chase scene these days? In any case, it's obviously possible to shoot a level of excitement like John and the fighter at the end of the fourth film, instead of rampaging down the road.

They arrived at Safehouse about thirty minutes later. What happened? A bunch of bad guys rushed in, John picked up the gun and chug... It's really stupid, one died and the other died, this is a good gift! First of all, aside from the stupid question of whether safe houses are really safe, what I want to ask is: why are there so many senseless explosions in this one? (It seems to be contradictory, it has no meaning at all) When

John and the Russian were discussing "the child's wings are too big and hard to manage", it was really hard to imagine that the last hairy was the bad guy. Then they went into the elevator with shotguns, like in Russia, which is normal. John even knew the local traffic situation better than the Russians, and with a little thought, he knew that the meeting was fraudulent. What did I see as a result? My own daughter kidnapped me! Although I finally found out that it was colluding, when I saw this, there were only tens of millions of alpacas running in the desert of Xinjiang in my mind! What kind of stupid plot is this? How did the audience in the movie theater accept all this and feel that the plot could develop normally?

John and his son were not afraid of danger, and after being beaten mercilessly + time-delayed, they broke free and began to hum haha ​​+ chug chug chug. In the first part, the bad guys were just a few people, each of them had a relatively high appearance rate, and I would be happy when John used his intelligence to kill one of them. The third John is battling an invisible enemy. What about the fifth one? I still don't know how huge the bad guys' organization is, and more bad guys are sending their heads and experience to give equipment.

After that, they were ready to go to Chernobyl. Hehe, I laughed. Sure enough, Hollywood's impression of Russia is almost like these things, CCCP, the Soviet Union, the Communist Party, Red Square, and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Not only has it turned emotional fast food, it has also turned people into Facebook, and even countries can be Facebooked. "You know what I hate about Americans? Everything!" It's hard to imagine this coming from a bad mouth, and I don't know where this hatred comes from. Find an excuse to "see you upset".

The only thing worth the price is the last scene, everything is so refreshing and hearty. Maozi was turned to death by his daughter with a helicopter propeller. This kind of plot is not seen in other movies.

At the end of the film, something unbelievable happened: Maozi's daughter shouted without ammunition: "This is for you, Dad!" Then driving the helicopter, she wanted to die with John and his son, and make herself young gave his life to the god of death. ...... But they are not dead? ! You will be scolded to death by your father for doing this under Jiuquan! It is unbelievable that she did two such stupid things on this day: first, she accidentally killed her father in the helicopter she was driving, and then she wanted to die with the enemy and she died. It's more stupid than when I go out and stumble on my left and fall on my right and there's a shit in front of me and I fall and eat shit and I get up and keep walking and slip and fall over this shit.

The film is insincere, the plot is empty, the content is not fulfilling, and the action scenes are too fake. It's all about making money from Bruce Willis and Die Hard. The entire content has nothing to do with public feedback, press freedom and the right to know, terrorist plans, or even the police! Everyone fights for the sake of fighting, buildings can explode at will, vehicles can roll over at will, and guns can be used anywhere. I'm wondering, is it really necessary for this film to be shot in Russia? Why not tell the story, even on American soil? Just replace Chernobyl with any vault or a location with something important.




This one is so different from the previous ones, I couldn't even eat popcorn watching this movie. Because everything has no sense of substitution, it doesn't seem like it will actually happen, and everything is meaningless: the mission plan is messed up, the person to protect is dead, and the important evidence files are not available (maybe they don't exist at all) ...Does it really matter that LAPD goes to Russia and fucks it? At least in the first few movies, the local police would stop him from crossing the line, but what about this one? Not even in the US at all. Isn't he afraid of being punished? Is he responsible for his actions? Why was everyone happy when my daughter came to greet me when I finally got off the plane? It's as if the director is saying, "I don't care about the audience's concern about the plot of TM..." It's as if none of this happened at all.

In the end, I just have one question: what is the significance of John throughout the film? correct! It is to disrupt everything planned by the original son! Originally, the son could successfully complete the task, but his untimely appearance made everything happen later! Maybe our Bruce Willis got on the wrong set and went with the flow.

The thing that saddens me the most: John doesn't have the guts to say YIPPEE-KIYAY MOTHERFUCKER like he knows how bad the movie is.

I hope that if there is a sequel, the level will not be the same as this one.


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A Good Day to Die Hard quotes

  • Komarov: Goddamn Americans. You think you're so smart.

    John McClane: No, I'm not that smart. I'm just on vacation.

  • John McClane: Safe house, my ass.