User Reviews

The title "DieHard is Back" already gives away what franchise I am talking about, although I am a bit confused that it says "DieHard" and not "Die Hard". In any case, there is still a lot for me to watch from this franchise and I hope they will maybe get it to theaters at some point again in the retro movie theaters. But now a few words on this one here: It runs for exactly two minutes and you can watch it on Youtube on a channel called "DieHard". The action is there, the humor as well, even if neither did very much for me, which may also explain my relative low rating. But even if I was more generous here, the above 7/10 right now is definitely way too high. The only reason this kinda works is basically the fact that Bruce Willis is in here and McClane is perhaps still his career-defining role after all these years. And he also played a vital character on "Pulp Fiction" for example, so the man surely has an impressive body of work and it means something that most people with him still think about the Die Hard movies. Or maybe some about Armageddon as well. Not too sure what he has been doing in very recent years. I only remember a year with David Morse, but that is also a bit older now already. Okay, now really back to this one here. Action has never been my genre really, so this did not do too much for me, but this also hasto do with bias of course. You basically get here what you could expect. Some fighting, lots of cool talk and some known characters. I guess the Black fella McClane sits in the car with at the end also belongs to the franchise, so it is a bit of a nice reunion. I personally wonder if Willis will do another Die Hard film anytime soon. Or do one at all. He is not a spring chicken anymore either, even if he seems in good shape as we see here because this little film is as of now not even three months old. Okay, that is pretty much all I have to say about this one. No need to exaggerate. If you like McClane and/or the franchise, go watch it. Otherwise skip because it won't turn you into a fan from any perspective and honestly you will also not be missing much really. It's a thumbs-down for me. Not a total failure, bit also nowhere near the territory where I would consider giving out a positive recommendation. Not cool enough for that overall although you can clearly see they want it to be. Glad it was this short, maybe an experienced director is not enough with the writers being not really experienced here, at least not when it comes to creating scripts. Skip.