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John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working undercover, causing the father and son to team up against un... Read allJohn McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working undercover, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces.John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working undercover, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 8 nominations
Radivoje Bukvic
- Alik
- (as Rasha Bukvic)
Zolee Ganxsta
- MRAP Driver
- (as Ganxsta Doglegy Zolee)
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- TriviaThis was the first Die Hard film where the original script was explicitly written as an entry in the Die Hard series.
- The first Die Hard (1988) film was based the novel "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp.
- Die Hard 2 (1990) was first written as a script based on Walter Wager's novel '58 Minutes'.
- Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) famously took its basic idea from Jonathan Hensleigh's screenplay Simon Says.
- Live Free or Die Hard (2007) was retro-fitted from the original screenplay WW3.com, which was nearly filmed on its own merits before the 9/11 terrorist attacks caused it to be shelved.
- GoofsAll roads leading into the Chernobyl/Pripyat exclusion zone have military checkpoints - yet neither the villains or the heroes seem to have any trouble gaining access.
- Quotes
John McClane: The shit we do for our kids. Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
- Alternate versionsAfter the UK censors informed Fox that the R-rated cut of the film would be carry a 15 rating, the distributors cut out almost all strong language, some scenes of fisticuffs and bloodier violence in order to release the film with a 12A rating for theatrical exhibition only. The cuts were waived when released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK in 2013 with a '15' rating thus presenting the US R-rated Theatrical Version uncut for home video release. The UK 12A Theatrical cut is not released on home video formats.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The One Show: Episode dated 6 February 2013 (2013)
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Great action but...
Let me start off by saying that like everyone I had a feeling this could go wrong. You have a terrible writer, Skip Woods(even if I enjoyed The A-Team) and a terrible director, John Moore. The people at Fox must be idiots because John Moore has not made one good film, so to trust him with the Die Hard franchise seemed a bad idea. The film has a lot of action if not too much, there isn't any dialog!!!! At 97 minutes it's the shortest one in the series ans it sure feels that way. Every other film in the franchise were longer, they gave you more time to explore the rest of the film. But this one feels so rushed, like okay let's go there , and then here,... The film has no structure. It's like they said "alright guys were gonna make this as fast as possible" Bruce Willis is fine but it's like he doesn't even talk during the whole movie, his chemistry with Jai Courtney is fine. The plot is okay even if you can see the twist coming after 25 minutes. What makes this film still enjoyable is the action even though it's disturbed by shaky-cam, bad editing and bad CGI effects. If they are gonna make another one they should bring back John Mctiernan and make the movie on a smaller scale. Back to basics!! If they make it on a bigger scale than they should make it as good as With a Vengeance.And another thing: You can't drive from Moscow to Chernobyl in a couple of hours!!!!!!
This is by far the worst entry in the franchise
This is by far the worst entry in the franchise
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- michaelberneman
- Feb 14, 2013
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- Also known as
- Die Hard 5
- Filming locations
- Budapest, Hungary(as Moscow, Russia)
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Box office
- Budget
- $92,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $67,349,198
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $24,834,845
- Feb 17, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $304,654,182
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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