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Ep. 38: Yippee Ki-Yay Comrade!: Commit One's Review of A Good Day to Die Hard


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Where's Hans Gruber when you need him....oh, right. Will, Mike, and Sam return to sequel territory as they witness Bruce Willis taken on Russian gang members (with none of the actors actually Russian) and the city of Moscow as John McClane in the 2013 film and fifth film in the Die Hard franchise, A Good Day to Die Hard. With the first original script specifically made to be a Die Hard film since the original classic and Jai Courtney as McClane's son Jack, the film is a fast-paced mess with a very thin plot in favor of action sequences (including a very long car chase sequence where McClane should have died or at least have some injury TWICE) that had to be crammed into a runtime of just over 90 minutes. This really embraces the phrase "turn off your brain and enjoy the stupid" as the viewer has to follow the poor script and inconsistencies, but the Commit One crew is ready (well almost all, Mike is doing this one under protest) to be "Russian" through this.

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