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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Die-hard has been going down since Die-hard 4
I do not know where to start. The whole story is a mess and if you take action scenes out, nothing meaningful will be left.
First off, finding a person who can speak English in Russia is next to none, unless you are in an international hotel or a touristic place. Your only options are either to speak Russian or have somebody who can translate. Otherwise, you are done. However, in this movie, almost everybody, even a taxi driver speaks English and sings Sinatra.
Second, the distance between Moscow and Pripyat is around 700km (440 miles) and more importantly Pripyat (Chernobyl) is in Ukraine, not in Russia. To reach there, you need to cross the border, going through customs, which is not a case with a stolen car loaded with weapons (I am not even commenting about possibility of hitting a luxury car parked in front of a nightclub and loaded with military grade weapons). Even if they manage to do this, considering least 7 - 8 hours drive time plus the time losses at the customs, the odds are that McLanes could hardly make it there before the end of the show.
Last, Chernobyl is not a deserted place. Since mid-2011, a construction project has been going on for installation of a new confinement over the damaged reactor to prevent leaking of radioactive material to the environment (the old one is falling apart).
Ice Soldiers (2013)
Good story, average movie
Okay, it seems that there is no need to give a summary of the movie, since it has already been supplied by other reviewers.
To me, the story was quite interesting, but the movie could have been much more better. Elements of an action movie was all around, but there was not much elements of science fiction, although the movie itself is a science fiction movie because of the story.
In overall, it is an OK movie that you can enjoy anyway.
I want to mention the mistakes that I have noticed:
At 29:06, Colonel gives an instruction to Sergeant and Sergeant repeats it to the radio by yelling "You heard the man...". However, there is no way that anybody could have heard the man, because Colonel was not talking to the radio but directly to Sergeant. In fact, throughout the movie, only thing that Sergeant does to repeat Colonel's orders by yelling "You heard the man..."
At 01:16:21, super soldier kills all the people in a hall with a single magazine, in automatic suppressive fire mode, which is hardly possible.
At 01:18:24, Malraux shoots at the truck carrying super soldiers with a Beretta 92 and hands gun over to TC when he arrives with snowmobile, by saying "You shoot, I'll drive". At 01:18:30, the gun turns into a Glock, which TC collects at the explosives cabin at 01:13:72, just before they get caught by police.