In “A Good Day to Die Hard”, the fifth installment in the action franchise, Detective John McLane is now a senior member of the NYPD. He’s still bald, but starting to show signs of age with grey stubble and a few more wrinkles. In the last movie, “Live Free or Die Hard”, Mclane made up with estranged daughter. This time around, he’s been searching for his estranged son, Jack (Jai Courtney), only to found out that his boy has been thrown into a Russian prison for assassinating a crime lord in front of a club full of people. McLane assumes his son has fallen into drugs and desperation so he goes to Russia to help his son.
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Steven Soderbergh bounces back with smart and suspenseful, ‘Side Effects’
One thing is for sure, Steven Soderbergh loves Channing Tatum. The dude has appeared in the director’s last three films. Last year they teamed up for the ploddingly slow “Haywire” and the goofy, male stripper, after school special “Magic Mike”. This time around, Tatum gets to keep his clothes on and the result is a smart and suspenseful thriller that will keep you guessing right up until the film’s final moments. That is, of course, assuming you can keep up with the convoluted and diabolically twisted plot.
Bateman and McCarthy waste away in stupid comedy, ‘Identity Thief’
How do you know when a movie is really bad? Sometimes you can see it from the time pre-production begins — the story, the cast, the filmmaking team just don’t seem to fit. Others the right cast and team can just misfire. Too often, studio executives in Hollywood think that you can take a proven director, a reliable leading man and the popular up and coming actress and generate a hit no matter how good the script is. “Identity Thief” is the perfect example of such a movie — good director, great comic leads but a terribly executed idea.