Five Things Needed To Fix Die Hard
4) Keep It Simple
Die Hard got a lot of praise back in the 80’s for being a relatively realistic movie, it was confined to a building and the protagonist was an everyman. With this new direction the profiteers are taking Die Hard on – unfortunately with the complicity of Bruce Willis – the protagonist is no longer a hero, but a superhero. John Moore, the director of Die Hard 5, went on record and said that the movie was ‘vast, vast’, stretching from California to Moscow. What? Since when was Die Hard about intercontinental espionage, you rotund bastard?
Why would a cop from New York being using RPGs on the streets of Moscow? I don’t give a damn how they ‘explain’ it, it’s bull. I don’t have the answer on how to constrain John McClane, but I’m not a writer. I just know his situation has to be maligned and urgent. I’d rather see a believable heist on a normal street – or something – rather than Operation Barbarossa V2.0. Something that is small yet competent is better than something that aims for the moon and falls on its ass.
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