John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working undercover, causing the father and son to team up against un... Read allJohn McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working undercover, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces.John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working undercover, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 8 nominations
Radivoje Bukvic
- Alik
- (as Rasha Bukvic)
Zolee Ganxsta
- MRAP Driver
- (as Ganxsta Doglegy Zolee)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was the first Die Hard film where the original script was explicitly written as an entry in the Die Hard series.
- The first Die Hard (1988) film was based the novel "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp.
- Die Hard 2 (1990) was first written as a script based on Walter Wager's novel '58 Minutes'.
- Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) famously took its basic idea from Jonathan Hensleigh's screenplay Simon Says.
- Live Free or Die Hard (2007) was retro-fitted from the original screenplay WW3.com, which was nearly filmed on its own merits before the 9/11 terrorist attacks caused it to be shelved.
- GoofsAll roads leading into the Chernobyl/Pripyat exclusion zone have military checkpoints - yet neither the villains or the heroes seem to have any trouble gaining access.
- Quotes
John McClane: The shit we do for our kids. Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.
- Alternate versionsThe UK release was cut, the distributor was advised that the film was likely to receive a 15 classification but that their preferred 12A classification could be obtained by making a number of cuts to both language and visuals. When the finished version of the film was submitted for formal classification, edits had been made to reduce the number of uses of strong language (both 'f**k' and 'motherf***er') and to reduce sequences of bloody violence, including blood sprays when characters are shot in the head, and punches to restrained individuals. The formal submission was consequently classified 12A.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The One Show: Episode dated 6 February 2013 (2013)
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I gave it a 3 to be nice because i'll always have a huge place in my heart for Die Hard, and just because i am loyal to the franchise i will probably buy this piece of junk on DVD when it comes out. Maybe when it comes out on DVD it'll be the extended edition ( seriously it was barely and hour and an a half long) and it'll actually have a story instead of just long drawn out action scenes, one-liners, and dialogue we can actually hear over the load background noise. I use to rank Die Harder as the worse of the franchise, guess who just moved up a step.
The only thing that this movie benefited the franchise is that John's son at the end actually mentions the fact that his name is actually John McClane Jr. not Jake ( in Die Hard (1988) his kids are named Lucy and John Jr.), But not actually explain the name change in the first place.
Much like when they took Oceans 12 to Europe and twisted Indiana Jones into confusing whirlwind that involved aliens, they should have just stayed in America where John McClane belongs. We got enough problems here he could fight.
The only thing that this movie benefited the franchise is that John's son at the end actually mentions the fact that his name is actually John McClane Jr. not Jake ( in Die Hard (1988) his kids are named Lucy and John Jr.), But not actually explain the name change in the first place.
Much like when they took Oceans 12 to Europe and twisted Indiana Jones into confusing whirlwind that involved aliens, they should have just stayed in America where John McClane belongs. We got enough problems here he could fight.
Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Die Hard 5
- Filming locations
- Budapest, Hungary(as Moscow, Russia)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $92,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $67,349,198
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $24,834,845
- Feb 17, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $304,654,182
- Runtime1 hour 38 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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