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This brings us to
A Good Day to Die Hard, from Fox's in-house action director John Moore (
Behind Enemy Lines,
Flight of the Phoenix,
The Omen,
Max Payne—movies you haven't seen, basically) and their in-house screenplay hack Skip Woods (
Hitman,
The A-Team, that first
Wolverine movie). I understand that these movies are always made by journeymen, but as I noted a few weeks ago, it's too bad that old-hand action directors like Walter Hill don't get a shot, especially since they'll probably hit no matter who's in charge. Still, if this rewatch taught me anything, it's that the bar for a decent
Die Hard movie isn't all that high, and if this Russia-set sequel refits McClane again as a sort of working-class James Bond ("the 007 of Plainview, New Jersey," he says of his CIA agent son in the trailer), well, we'll see how it goes, and I'll probably still come back for
Die Hard 6 sometime in the next four to 17 years.
