Devolution in action! From being stuck killing people in a Los Angeles High Rise to save your wife to killing people in the streets of Moscow to save your son, the thrill has gone as Bruce Willis, surely the best actor cum action hero, can't save this pretty bad movie.
For reasons not made clear, Willis and son as John and Jai McClane. Jai is in jail, John is gonna go save his estranged son, and together they go on a killing spree to save the world from some Russian hee-haws behind Chernobyl (Chernobyl?) . Both Bruce and Aussie newbie the diabolically named Jai Courtney are terrible, there are no love interests and there is no sense at all to the plot. The chases are confusing, the action completely beggars the imagination and because I am a sucker for blowing things up, I didn't hate it but cmon? Couldn't they have done a little more with the damn franchise.
The movie tanked so thank God we can stop worrying about the Government of the former USSR and wondering why John Moore (the man behind the atrocious "The Omen" remake) placed the action so far from home. I would've guessed that the producers made a deal with the Tourist Bureau Of Russia (we've all seen "Argo' we know how it's done) but since it insults the Russian legal system (for good reason -pace Pussy Riot, but that isn't the point) and uses Moscow for nothing except blowing to pieces I don't see why.
Bruce tells his son some 100 killings later "This has been a good day. I missed you son." I checked my mind, it was boggling.
Music: Not much and if they were gonna use the latest Stones song, why stick it under the closing credits?