I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that if you had to see yet another 20th-century action star, alive and well and kicking ass for the benefit of the over-40s crowd — and that star is Bruce Willis, whom you can remember as having a full head of hair (brunette) and a terrible taste in suits — you're thinking, "Enough already. Shelf life way too long."
I'm here to inform you that here-today-yesterday-and-forever action men like good ol' Bruce deserve some credit. If nothing else, "A Good Day to Die Hard" gets you in touch with Willis in his best and finest Hollywood mode. It's the fifth (and quite possibly not the last) installment in the franchise that immortalized Willis' famous battle cry of "Yippee ki-yay, motherf-cker!" — which you'll be hearing a lot again. It's noisy, busy, obnoxious and it fits him like an unwashed tank top.
And when you get right down to it, "A Good Day to Die Hard" is a rockin' treat, the way a Snicker's bar and a large Coke is. No doubt you'll later be groaning from a sugar crash and the self-loathing that can only come from mindless consumption of empty calories. But hey, you only live once.