A Good Day to Die Hard is a 2013 American action film directed by John Moore and written by Skip Woods. It is the fifth installment of the Die Hard film series. Bruce Willis reprises the lead role of John McClane, who travels to Russia to help his estranged son, Jack (Jai Courtney), out of prison, but is soon caught in the crossfire of a terrorist plot. Talks of a fourth sequel to Die Hard began before the release of Live Free or Die Hard (2007), 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 territories on February 7, with its release in the United States and Canada scheduled for February 14. It is the first Die Hard film to use Dolby Atmos Surround Mixing and the first to also be released in IMAX theaters. Former police officer and detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) travels to Russia to help his son, Jack (Jai Courtney), who has been arrested after assassinating Anton (Roman Luknár), a subordinate of Chagarin (Sergei Kolesnikov), a high-ranking but corrupt Russian official, who is planning on incriminating political prisoner and government whistleblower Yuri Komarov (Sebastian Koch) without a fair trail; he is looking to get hold of a file believed to be in Komarov's possession. While in court standing trial, an explosion occurs. Jack breaks free with Komarov. John, who happens to be near the courthouse at the time, confronts Jack. Their confrontation turns heated and draws the attention of Chagarin's henchman, Alik (Radivoje Bukvić). John, Jack and Komarov manage to escape but not with Alik and his gang chasing after them. John manages to stall some time for Jack and Komarov. After a neck-to-neck car chase between John and Alik results in both of their vehicles crashing violently, only John survives unscathed, while Alik and his crew sustain injuries. Jack drives back to pick John up and they drive to a safe house. It is then revealed that Jack is an agent working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). At the safe house, another CIA operative asks Komarov about the file's whereabouts. The file is said to have incriminating evidence against Chagarin, which is what the CIA needs. Komarov recalls having kept the key to the vault at the place where he and his wife "shared their first dance" – a building in Ukraine. While changing attire, the safe house comes under attack, with the CIA operative being killed. Jack detonates a large portion of the building, while John kills off the remaining terrorists. The trio eventually escape and make their way to the key's hiding place; Komarov has made a call to his daughter, Irina, to meet him there too. When they arrive, John grows suspicious of Irina; his suspicions are proven to be not unfounded when Alik and his men crash in and tie John and Jack up. Irina confesses to snitching on them for the "millions of dollars". Because of a hidden knife, Jack manages to break free of his ropes. Following a series of arms exchange, Alik hurriedly runs to the helipad on the rooftop and leaves on the helicopter with Irina and Komarov, who is under hostage. John and Jack are attacked by incoming fire from the helicopter but they yet again escape but crashing out of the windows; Jack is shot in the process. The father and son share a light moment while John pulls out a bullet. Later that day, they steal a car and drive to the file's hiding place as was earlier revealed by Komarov at the safe house. Alik gets there before they do — the hiding place is actually a large vault housing crates of enriched uranium. Komarov shoots Alik in the head, showing that there had been no file in existence and he has been masquerading the whole plot ever since. He attempts to fly away with boxes of uranium, but John and Jack soon discovers about his true plot and take him away. Irina learns that John and Jack have learnt their secret and hurriedly comes to her father's rescue. After a heavy gunfire exchange, Jack goes after Yuri while John goes after Irina who is escaping on a helicopter. He kills everyone except for Irina, who tries to protect her father from being killed by Jack. However, Jack survives the shootout and hurls Komarov off the rooftop, where he collides with Irina's helicopter rotors and is gorily killed. John falls off the helicopter he was clinging onto but narrowly survives and reunites with Jack. Wanting to avenge her father, Irina rams into the building the father and son are in. John and Jack then jump off the building just as the helicopter catches fire and explodes, killing Irina in the process. They land into a tank of water; Jack frantically calls for John when he fails to find him, and for one of the first times in the film, addresses John as "Dad". John is revealed to have survived and he had actually gotten out of the tank first. Glad that their ordeal is over, they return to New York. At the airport, they meet Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), John's oldest child and Jack's sister. They happily walk off together.
