Die Hard: Fucking Awesome. Die Hard 2: Cool. Die Hard: With a Vengeance: Fucking Awesome. Live Free or Die Hard: Fucking Epic!!! A Good Day to Die Hard: I fell asleep. Never finished it. Never will. Literally pointless.

The great thing about John McClane was that he was the antidote to all those invincible 80s action heroes. He was human, vulnerable, and relatable. This McClane was one of those 80s action heroes he wasn't supposed to be.

Each Die Hard movie not only had a defined villain, but a defined setting. DH1 - a skyscraper DH2 - an airport DH3 - a city DH4 - a country DH5 - ??? They should have made "Olympus Has Fallen" the DH5 movie. That way, again, McClane could be thrown into a plot against his will, the setting would be very defined. We'd be back to a building, but a famous and high tech building. And the villain in OHF, Kang, would have been perfect for the DH series.

When i first click this i thought it was Cinema Sins lol.

Die Hard 1: A Bank Die Hard 2: An Airport Die Hard 3: A Whole City Die Hard 4: The Whole Country I was expecting The whole world to be in danger in Die Hard 5, perhaps Die Hard 5 should be Armageddon though

I am the only one who really liked Die Hard 4? that movie was fun as hell.

Curiously, the disaster of Die Hard 5 made me more desperate for a sequel. I mean, it just can't end like this!

The Unrated version of Die Hard 4 was a hundred times better than this film. Why does no one mention that cut ever? That was the cut that was intended to be released in the first place but was switched at the request of the studio.

Die Hard: Awesome! Die Hard 2: Very Good. Die Hard with a Vengeance: Awesome! Live Free or Die Hard: Good. A Good Day to Die Hard: ... WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS PIECE OF SHIT?!

I refuse to acknowledg that Die Hard 5 exist.

This video still holds up after almost eight years.

Die Hard: McClane is utterly desperate to save Ellis’s life from Gruber. Ellis, a man he doesn’t like and thinks very little of. He is visibly shaken when he hears Ellis killed over the radio. Die Hard 5: McClane, after running over civilians and wildly shooting bazookas in the street: “I’m on vacation!”

Am I the only one who who thinks that the writer, Skip Woods kind of looked like Mickey Rourke in that picture?

"I'm not one of the people who debate about Die Hard 4 being ruined by its PG13 rating." How I feel about Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

Die hard 1 was great Die hard 2 was realy good Die hard 3 was olso realy good Die hard 4 was nice Die hard 5 was a waste of my time.

It'll be funny if Chris presented this video while he was wasted.

Die Hard 5 great movie. I mean it was directed by John Moore that guy who made the great Max Payne movie. (everything in this comment was sarcasm).

It's just like Rocky V, I hope they fix it on a Die Hard 6 like they did in Rocky Balboa

my ranking: 5. Die Hard 5 4. Die Hard 4 3. Die Hard 2 2. Die Hard 3 1. Die Hard

There are only 4 Die Hard movies.

I didn't even finish Die Hard 5. The first half of the movie was too painful for me to even finish the film. It is no doubt the worst film of the franchise & it was a disgrace how they butchered the character of John McClane.

I try to forget this movie

Well you can say John McClane is UNBREAKABLE!! I am so sorry.

This video used to be called “Everything wrong with Die Hard 5”

I think they rated it R because its rubbish lol

Daemn. This would definitely go on a top ten movies that ruined the franchise list.

Man, I’m your analyzation videos really deserve more views. I love hearing your thought process on this. Thank you for these!

Ha! Terrific comment.

This guy... This guy gets it.

Very good analysis. This review reminds me very much of the Plinkett reviews of the Star Wars prequels, not only in it's style, but how well it's able to analyze point-by-point what the movie is missing, what it did wrong, and why this movie doesn't live up to it's franchise. Good job!

When diehard 4 came out I questioned the rating. I mean it's John McClane. At first I thought the PG-13 rating took away from his character. After I watched it my opinion changed. Live free or die hard was awesome. That's why I agree that ratings don't mean anything

8:35 Thank God somebody has finally said this, a hero is not interesting unless we can believe he can get his ass kicked at some point. The Bride in Kill Bill almost got killed several times and she only defeated her oponents after they had given their fucking best and Ash Williams, as badass as he is, spends a huge chunk of the Evil Dead movies running away from something before he gets to shoot some deadite in the face which adds tension to every scene they're in.

Some ideas to potentially fix Die Hard 6: -Bring the setting back to Nakatomi Plaza -Make the villain a Gruber (Hans's son played by Daniel Radcliffe?) -Bring back John McClane's "every-man" status by making his age a factor -Go the "Last Cruade" route and cast Clint Eastwood as John McClane's father. -Recast John McClane's son (maybe with Channing Tatum?)

Yes! Please do more of these Chris! No one can do these analysis videos like you! You actually make it sound interesting and not like a lecture. That ominous music helps too.

One day I decided to go on KZfaq to see a review for a movie that was coming out, your video was at the top of the list, I don't think I have ever laughed so hard at your videos, the hilarioucity reviews are gold. You have inspired me to post videos about things I am passionate about as well. Thank you,

I remember going to see this opening day with my friend, and she came out really liking it whilst I was livid. And after I talked about what had happened and why I hated it, she wound up agreeing with me and turning against what she had seen as just a film she enjoyed seeing things blow up in but couldn't really follow the plot. One of my biggest peeves about what they didn't get about McClane is how it's a constant running theme of this film how he isn't affectionate, and "not a hugging family" and all this machismo b.s. ...pretty sure one of the first things he does the second he gets a chance in the first two films was running into the arms of his wife and smother her with kisses and just holds her because it's what he needs right now... yeah that sounds like a man who hates affection.. Also followed up by his constant shouting of "I'm on vacation!" ..no you're not! You're there to watch your son's trial! If it was on vacation then you'd have just gone there and decided watching your son get the death penalty would be the best start to a nice week off!

So John Mclane became Bruce Willis in Die hard 5?

I love hating this movie.

Now years later It's sad to remember die hard series didn't end on a high note but hey on the good side people started to appreciate die hard 2 & 3 more

God I hate this movie.

Behind Enemy Lines was good though.

Bruce Willis is a total sellout. He willingly embarked on a doomed venture with two hacks, and took his awesome Die Hard series to the grave. Shame on him!

Absolutely love your analysis videos, subscribed.

I really enjoy that you are so genuine. It is refreshing.

Rotten Tomatoes ratings: Die Hard: 92% Die Hard 2: 66% Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance: 51% Live Free or Die Hard: 82% A Good Day to Die Hard: 14% Need I say more?

Rian Johnson "Hold My Beer"

I agreed with everything you said Stuckmann! I said basically the same in my review a while back. Didn't even know about your reviews until yesterday. Binge watching now!

I am so happy that I'm not the only one who enjoys Live Free or Die Hard. You're the best, Chris Stuckmann.

Whats the background music ? Can some1 pm me a link/name thanks :)

They should have replaced the son with the daughter character from 4. Maybe she got involved with some bad ppl. Would’ve been much more interesting.

Bro I’ve been following you for almost your entire KZfaq career and I’ve been binging your reviews recently....and I’ve come to realize that you haven’t reviewed Live Free or Die hard? Maybe I’m blind but I went through your die hard reviews. If you haven’t I’d love to see you do one. Awesome job as always!

Hit the nail on the head, good work!

My favorite Die Hard Movies are 1, 4, 3, 2....... and 5 is a distant last place. If you hadn't shown a still of the villain, I never would have known it. I guess that's the definition of "forgettable."

Are we not going to mention that THEY WALKED INTO FUCKING CHERNOBYL WEARING ONLY LEATHER JACKETS!!

As you said, the hero needs to have vulnerable moments. Even Superman (though I'm not a big fan) has had these in his many incarnations. Invincible heroes are boring. Hollywood needs to remember this.

Actually, writer Skip Woods is Bruce Willis' personal writer/assistent. In 'A three evening with Kevin Smith' Smith talks about his time on the DH4 set, including a quote by Woods that there are 20 writers on the movie. So this should clarify why Woods got to (co-?)write DH5; he's been a personal friend and collegue of BW for years. You should go and check Smith's skit out, Chris, because it's a really funny anekdote. Hope this helped.

Chris, you are brilliant, and because of that, you can do better than "nucular".

Film was crap, tagline was genius. 'Yippee-ki-yay mother-Russia'.

Hey Chris just found your channel and I love it! thanks for your reviewws

I remember watching this video shortly after it came out. Weird that I'm just now re-discovering your channel.

100% accurate! This movie causes me physical and mental pain and was immensely disappointing.

It was nice that they released an R rated version of Die Hard 4.0

I was one of the concept designers of Live Free or Die Hard. Glad you liked it. Worked really hard on that one!

Great analysis Chris. I felt something ( or everything) is lost when i saw this movie, and you can describe them well. Just an idea but I hope you can make an analysis video about comparison between Guardians of Galaxy and Jupiter Ascending. Both are space operas and filled with over the top ideas, but you can see how different the audiences responded to those movies.

This isn't made by cinemasins *ding* but still great video.

Can I just say that while I can see why 1, 3 and 4 get a lot of respect ( and rightly so ), I honestly don't see why 2 is ranked so low. I really like it. Nothing was ever going to beat the first but considering how bad sequels to great action films can be ( I'm looking at you, Speed 2 ), Die Harder is actually pretty damn entertaining. And for the record, I want the sixth and final film to be about McClane taking on a gang of terrorist nuns and to be called Old Habits Die Hard.

The short answer to that question. Everything

I like how you talk & explain. Your arguments are true. I agree. Well done "ChrisStuckmann".

6:02-6:09 ❤️the way he says "Films????"

"He may be an alien who came to study our reaction to ruined franchises." Hahahahaha that was great!

The first Die Hard that I slept watching it.

Great review Chris, and I totally agree with your points here, especially the fact that McClane now seems to have zero fucks now when it comes to protecting civilians and how the Die Hard 5 villain was beyond abysmal. But curious, in your other video detailing how well done the villains of the first 4 Die Hard movies, why do you feel the Die Hard 2 villain of Colonel Stewart to be only” acceptable,” compared to the villains of - DH 1, 3, and 4? I mean, personally, I felt the DH-2 villain of Colonel Stewart, a former US Special Forces military officer gone traitor to be a pretty bad ass villain. Colonel Stewart of Die Hard 2 was a cold, ruthless, and scary psychopath willing to do just about anything to reach his goal. Stewart even coldly and purposely directed a 747 of civilizations into the concrete, killing them, without batting an eye, and smiled, sadistically enjoying himself while doing so. Also Stewart is the one villain of the Die Hard franchise who’s plan came closest to working. If McClane hadn’t lit that fuel trail on Stewart’s escape plane at the last second, Stewart’s entire plan would’ve succeeded, as he and his mercenaries would’ve escaped to freedom. So while not as awesome as Hans Gruber, Colonel Stewart of Die Hard 2 I thought made a very effective villain, equally good as Simon Gruber of DH-3 and Thomas Gabriel of DH-4.

if he would instead have made a video of "everything right with Die Hard 5" then this video would only be seconds long. would have saved some time

thanks Chris: you put in words what I feel

This was the video that introduced me to Chris Stuckmann.

This movie was horrible, and I mean horrible, I'm a huge fan of Die Hard, but as big of a fan as I am, I cannot forgive this hunk of garbage. John McClane is no longer a guy concerned with protecting the innocent, now he's a guy who punches someone because of a language barrier? I couldn't believe that scene, because it goes against everything that John McClane as a character is. Killing bad guys, and being a smart ass to them sure, but hurting civilians? come on! This is a bad film in every sense of the word, nothing redeemable about it, the plot is dull, the action is clunky, and the characters including John McClane are atrocious.

Nu-clear. NU-CLEAR. NOT Nookular. Geez.

Always found this film so, so Boring and painful but I never knew why until now, Thanks

on board for the first 15 minutes..........what an endorsement!

While I watched this movie, in the scene where they drive from Moscow to Ukraine (I think it was), I had to check how long that way was. It's quite a long time since I saw it and don't remember that much, but from Moscow to that place in Ukraine would take half a day to drive. It seemed like they drove for like 2 hours, and I don't think the car they drove was full of gas.

16 blocks should've been the plot to Die hard 4!!

Hey Chris, this is "Final Farewell?" you got in the background, right? It's been bugging me that I know that tune from somewhere.

Nicely said, Chris...

Believe it or not, I think I'd actually like to see a Die Hard 6, with John just being a retired cop trying to live out the rest of his life. Maybe he runs into some trouble at a local bank while trying to resolve an issue with his social secuirty deposit or his pension or something. Maybe Sam Jackson's character from 3 makes a cameo, or Reginald VelJohnson shows up again. John gets into fights. Things explode I'd like to say that 5 ruined this franchise and that we'll never see another one of these movies ever again, but we all know Hollywood is retarded and they're going to regurgitate this kind of pointless drivel at us until Bruce Willis is dead (and then they'll just CG him into the next one,) but oh well. I can dream. Fun fact: My Father actually met William Sadler (Col. Stuart from DH 2/Death from Bogus Journey/A great actor from a ton of other pretty great movies and TV) one afternoon at an utterly massive swapmeet/yardsale-thing in New England, many, many years ago. He walked up to him and said, "I loved you in Lethal Weapon." Mr. Sadler was quite polite about the whole thing, but damn, we've never let him live that down ever since. The funny thing was, my Father was totally thinking Die Hard 2 at the time and that other film just came out instead. The poor guy. :p

Where are the "Ding's"?

Do more of these!

spot on, Chris, friggin spot on

they need to just end the franchise already Willis has gotten too old anyway.

For as long as I still have Die Hard 1-3, I don't mind seeing that beautiful bald fuck, flipping the bird to exploding helicopters in unnecessary sequels every few years.

I like the format of this review more than his usual ones, where he just sits in front of a camera and talks to you.

For some reason these in depth analysis videos are the most interesting movie reviews to me, but few people seem to do them often. Obviously they take more effort to make and I don't want an analysis of Piranha 3DD, but on major film releases, I wish you would do this more often, it was the Prometheus and Drive video that got me to subscribe

Has Jai Courtney ever been in a good movie or delivered a good performance? This was terrible. The Terminator he was in was terrible. The Divergent movies are garbage. I, Frankenstein is a mediocre action movie at best. Same for jack Reacher. Yet he keeps getting work. Now he's in Suicide Squad and that is by far the biggest worry I have about that movie.

For thos who watched brooklyn nine nine Jake:its going to be alright..dont worry. Charles:but jake,you said the same thing about die hard 5!! Jake:oh no...its not going to be alright

U are so on the ball with this video!! The 5th film has almost no connection with the previous ones.

Chris please analyse more movies. These are the best reviews I've watched

Timothy Olyphant's character was memorable? Really? I would have used a pic of William Sadler instead. You could even make an argument that he did the most fucked up thing out of all the villains in the franchise (crashing that plane).

A-team wasnt that bad its a good time no alcohol requiered at least But the rest of the writer films NOOO

I finished watching this review just a sec ago. And it leaves me wanting MORE!!!

Great analysis! BTW, I just subed to your channel :)

In Skip Woods defence Swordfish is a pretty good film. Well thats what I thought anyway it has problems but still pretty enjoyable. Im not defending Die Hard 5 just saying that Swordfish isnt that bad.