Die Hard 5 is an action film produced by Twentieth Century Fox and directed by John Moore and starring Bruce Willis, Jay Courtney, Mary Elizabeth Winsstead, and Amory Norasque. The film was released on March 14, 2013, in Chinese mainland. The film tells the story of Detective John McLean and his son Jack McLean in a deadly showdown with local evil forces in Russia.
As of July 2013, the film has grossed more than 200 million yuan in Chinese mainland.
Synopsis
John McLean (Bruce Willis) is back, and he goes to the police station to save his troublesome son Jack (Jay Kotney) who is in jail and comes to Moscow, the Russian capital, as a tourist. Arriving in Moscow, he discovers that Jack is on a terrifying mission for the CIA: to protect the arrested Russian tycoon Komorov (Sebastin Koch) and take him to a CIA-designated location.
However, due to the appearance of John McLean, Jack missed the opportunity to complete the task of the first plan. When the two arrived at the alternate safe place, they were ambushed by revealing their identities. Subsequently, the three make an appointment with the tycoon's only daughter, Elena (Yulia Sniger), to retrieve the key to the documents revealing the incriminating evidence of a high-level nuclear weapons transaction by a high-ranking member of the authorities.
However, this meeting almost cost the father and son their lives, and the tycoon's daughter kidnapped her father and betrayed them for money. As the situation unfolds, they discover that the tycoon himself is actually the tycoon himself, whose real purpose is to sell nuclear raw materials. At the moment of life and death, the father and son, who were already at odds, must be born into death together and rush out of danger. Even if the personalities are very different and the conflicts are constant, they also begin to cooperate seamlessly because of the blood thicker than the water family affection, and they face a hair-trigger disaster together. In the end, the father and son fought the terrorists to the death and swept them all away, avoiding the outflow of nuclear raw materials.
Movie reviews
The special effects and thrilling scenes of "Die Hard 5" have been upgraded compared to the sequels of the previous films in the "Die Hard" series. Bruce Willis was also personally involved in several thrilling scenes in the film, including a serial car crash scene and John McClian's fall from the top floor of the hotel during the siege. In addition, the film also has many highlights in terms of special effects, and finally the helicopter piloted by the heroine Irina crashed into the building in the same way, the smoke filled the fire, and the destroyed helicopter finally disappeared in the fire, leaving only the propeller to draw a perfect arc.
Compared with the sequels of the previous parts of the "Die Hard" series, "Die Hard 5" has a big breakthrough in the plot and character settings, and the male protagonist John McLean has walked out of the United States for the first time, and his son who can fight with the opposite personality like himself fights side by side in Moscow. That's a big breakthrough for McLean, who only wandered around the U.S. in the first four episodes.
"Die Hard 5" first introduced John's son Jack in the character setting, father and son to fight together is a good idea, especially in the protagonist's aging series, son Jack can not only share the physical burden of John McLean, but also lay the groundwork for his father's retirement.
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