A Good Day to Die Hard

A Good Day to Die Hard
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Moore
Produced by	Alex Young Wyck Godfrey
Screenplay by	Skip Woods
Based on	Characters by Roderick Thorp
Starring	Bruce Willis Jai Courtney Sebastian Koch Rasha Bukvić Cole Hauser Yuliya Snigir
Music by	Marco Beltrami
Cinematography	Jonathan Sela
Edited by	Dan Zimmerman
Production company	Giant Pictures TSG Entertainment
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	January 31, 2013 (2013-01-31) (Leicester Square) February 14, 2013 (2013-02-14) (United States)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English Russian
Budget	$92 million
Box office	$304.7 million

A Good Day to Die Hard is a 2013 American action thriller film and the fifth installment in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by John Moore and written by Skip Woods, and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane. The main plot finds McClane travelling to Russia to get his estranged son, Jack, an undercover CIA agent, out of prison. He is soon caught in the crossfire of a global terrorist plot. Alongside Willis, the film also stars Jai Courtney, Cole Hauser, Yuliya Snigir and Sebastian Kotch as the film's villain.

Talks of a fifth Die Hard film began before the release of the fourth installment, Live Free or Die Hard, with Willis affirming that the latter would not be the last in the series, but pre-production did not start until September 2011, when John Moore was officially announced as the director. Filming began in April 2012, primarily in Budapest, Hungary.

A Good Day to Die Hard premiered in Los Angeles on January 31, 2013, coinciding with the unveiling of a Die Hard mural at the Fox Lot, and was released in certain East and Southeast Asian countries on February 7 and in the United States and Canada on February 13. It is the first Die Hard film to use Dolby Atmos Surround Mixing and the first to also be released in IMAX theaters. Unlike the previous films, A Good Day to Die Hard was the first Die Hard film to be a critical failure, receiving overwhelmingly negative reviews which cited implausible action sequences, a cliched script, a weak plot, Moore's direction, and a lack of characterization, although the special effects were praised. It is the first film produced by TSG Entertainment, since distributor 20th Century Fox's departure from Dune Entertainment upon the completion of their distribution contract at the end of 2012.