Salon.com > sequels http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “A Good Day to Die Hard”: Bruce Willis smirks the Russians to death http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/a_good_day_to_die_hard_bruce_willis_smirks_the_russians_to_death/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/a_good_day_to_die_hard_bruce_willis_smirks_the_russians_to_death/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13200547 So Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis – with 188 years of life on the planet between them — have all released new action-adventure movies within the last month (pairing themselves conspicuously with younger co-stars), and God help me, I sat through all three. Willis is the baby of the trio at 57, and it’s reasonable to expect that the bewildering and idiotic “A Good Day to Die Hard,” the latest installment of a franchise that has yet to fail at the box office, will prosper where “The Last Stand” and “Bullet to the Head” have bombed. It’s also the worst of the three films, by far, at least if you’re sticking somewhere in the vicinity of old-fashioned ideas about the coherence of plot, characterization and setting, but I recognize that's irrelevant. (For the record, Stallone’s “Bullet to the Head,” while totally cartoonish, is more fun and better made than the other two.)

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