DVD & Blu-ray review: A Good Day to Die Hard (15)
Die Hard, possibly the most satisfying of all the Eighties actioners, is granted a fifth outing and it’s sloppy.
June 8, 2013
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Die Hard, possibly the most satisfying of all the Eighties actioners, is granted a fifth outing and it’s sloppy.
A Richard Curtis-ian rom-com with a misanthropic twist, I Give it a Year focuses on a pair of newlyweds, Rafe Spall and Rose Byrne, who aren’t sure whether to stay together. The problem is that we aren’t sure, either. Â Â Â Â
“I’m nine feet tall, I weigh six hundred and forty three pounds, got a bit of a temper on me,†maintains Wreck-It-Ralph (voiced by John C Reilly), a lonely arcade-game villain who longs for acceptance.    Â
This solemn look at addiction never really surpasses its terrifying plane crash in the opening sequence. However, Denzel Washington (pictured), on top form, holds it ably together with a convincing performance as a sozzled pilot, Captain Whip Whitaker. Â Â Â Â
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“I’m always in somebody’s way,” laments Mark O’Brien, a California-based poet and journalist who contracted polio as a child and was confined to an iron lung for the rest of his life. Â Â Â Â
Matthias Schoenaerts, Marion Cotillard’s beefy co-star in Rust and Bone , stars in a brooding rural crime saga from Belgium, playing a cattle farmer who deals in illegal growth hormones. Â Â Â Â
Tom Hooper’s quasi-operatic mega-musical is loaded with major historical events, weighty themes, tragic deaths and symbolic rebirths, so it’s no wonder that the film version of Les Mis gets so exhausting, especially in the static, unspectacular second half. Â Â Â Â
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“I’m not OK, they want to kill me,†pleads Stephen Moyer to his best pal, Michael (Jack Davenport). Who are “they� Vampires, of course.