A Good Day to Die Hard

Remember my review about “Jack, the Giant Slayer” last week?

You haven’t read it yet? Ok, so read that one first before continuing with this one.

Think of everything I said about “Jack”. Now imagine the complete opposite…

That would be my review on “A good day to die hard” lol.

I have not watched the previous “Die Hard” movies, but this one… is something else.

It has no plot whatsoever, the acting is quite poor and the story just doesn’t go anywhere.

It’s just… I have no words.

There is however, something you will find A LOT in this movie: Destruction.

From beginning to end.

There are a lot of explosions, fights, people going through windows, falling from the highest buildings but never dying, more explosions, gunshots, buildings getting destroyed, more explosions and the main characters still come out of all that alive!

I guess that’s why it’s called “Die Hard”, because no matter what happens, they just don’t die!

So to summarize: “A good day to die hard” is not a movie worth spending any money on. I would not watch it again. I wouldn’t have even watched it if it weren’t for “Les Miserables”.

Oh I haven’t told you about my “Les Miserables” story, have I? Come back next Friday and I will tell you all about it. Oh my! 

Colombiana

This is the story of a woman who witnessed the murder of her parents when she was a little girl. Her father had crooked business with a crook in Colombia and after some business that you don’t really understand in the beginning, her father’s ‘boss’ comes after him and kills him and his wife but is not able to kill her, because she escapes.

And here’s where the movie started stinking for me.

Cataleya (the girl we are talking about here, played by Zoe Saldana) couldn’t have been more than 10 years old, but she manages to escape a gang of armed and trained men. She is very clever and finds a way to get to the United States and although she had never been there before, she easily finds her way to her relatives’ house… Come on! I know that movies are fictional, but they have make up better stories than that!

Upon arriving at her uncle’s house, she says she doesn’t want to study, she wants to become an assassin, because… you guessed it, she wanted to avenge her parents’ death.

From then on, the whole movie is very predictable.

She grows up, becomes this super woman who fights and kills all the bad guys who cross her path, and on she goes with her vengeance. She lives her whole life to get revenge and all her efforts are not able to make her happy. This is what happens when you seek revenge; you may even succeed but it doesn’t make anything right, it doesn’t fix things, it doesn’t bring you peace or makes you happy.

But going back to the movie, all I can say is that you don’t really need to watch until the end to know what happens. And if you don’t need to watch it until the end, you don’t need to watch it at all.

I do not recommend it :(


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The Grace Card

For those who haven't watched or even heard about this movie before, let me explain what it is about.

This is an inspirational movie about a family who suffer the consequences of a horrible tragedy that happened 17 years ago. Since it happened, the Mac family was never able to be happy again, the father was never able to forgive himself, the son never felt any connection with his father and the wife is just lost in the middle of it all. Until a stranger entered their lives and started awakening things in them they'd rather leave dormant.

It shows how forgiveness is a much more powerful weapon than hatred. It shows how faith in God can actually change people on the inside. It shows how much someone can suffer when they just can't let the past go.

It has a great message. It's a great movie... or at least it was supposed to be.

Yeah... I'd love to be able to come here and say how wonderful this movie is. It actually had everything to be very good. It had the   idea, the concept, the objective and the intention, but it did not have the right production. So, unfortunately, I cannot say it was a great movie.

They couldn't have chosen worse actors. You know when an actor is good when he makes you believe that whatever he is saying, feeling or showing is true. If he is devastated and cries, you can almost feel his desolation, his despair. Such is not the case with the actors in this movie. Everything is so rehearsed, so forced, so fake that you and I could have done a better job.

I had to actually endure all the bad acting just so I could come here and have a full review to give you.

The plot does not develop nicely. One scene simply jumps to another and the whole thing is soooo predictable. 

It's a pity really. I wish this movie could have a had better production and a higher budget, so they could hire better actors and come out with the great movie this story deserved.

But I commend them for trying.

I just wish people would invest more in movies like this instead of trashy ones like 'Friends with Benefits'!

Do I recommend The Grace Card? If you can endure all the bad things I described above, yes. If no, then not really.

Which is a shame because I really wanted to :(