A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD | FAMILY MOVIE REVIEW INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND KIDS

"A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD"
(2013) (Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney) (R)

QUICK TAKE:: Action: New York cop John McClane travels to Russia to help his CIA agent son foil a terrorist plot.

PLOT:

New York cop John McClane (BRUCE WILLIS) learns that his wayward son, Jack (JAI COURTNEY), has been arrested for murder in Moscow. Feeling guilty for being an absentee father, he hops on a plane for Russia to help Jack out. He gets to the courthouse just at the time terrorists detonate car bombs and swarm the building with automatic weapons looking to kidnap Komarov (SEBASTIAN KOCH), a political prisoner also on trial.

John soon learns that Jack is a CIA agent assigned to protect Komarov and get him out of the city. McClane, though, unwittingly gets in the way of his exit strategy. Forced on the run, the McClanes run afoul of Yuri (SERGEI KOLESNIKOV), a master criminal who is eager to retrieve a computer file that could incriminate him in the Chernobyl disaster; Alik (RADIVOJE BUKVIC), Yuri's top henchman; and Irina, (YULIYA SNIGIR), Komarov's duplicitous daughter.

Father and son escape death several times and vow to foil a nuclear-weapons heist that could alter the balance of power in the world. To do so, they will have to put aside their differences and work together.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?: Older teens who have cut their teeth on the "Die Hard" series on cable and DVD will have some interest.

WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: R: For violence and language.

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