A Good Day to Die Hard

I’m not one to demand that films in a franchise adhere to the conventions and formula of those that preceded it, so the fifth entry in the Die Hard franchise doing stuff like going to Russia and essentially becoming a spy action thriller don’t bother me. What bothers me is that the trip to Russia is thinly drawn and ends up making little to no sense and the spy action thriller stuff isn’t exactly good.

There’s an exchange in Live Free or Die Hard where John McClane and Matthew Farrell are drivi...