Ever wondered what Die Hard would have been like if it was set during a European Cup Semi Final at Upton Park?
Wonder no more with this recent effort from Sky’s ‘release it on Sky Movies at the same time as in the cinema to make it seem like you’re getting a good deal when really it would have gone straight to dvd anyway’ movie production model. It runs like a scene by scene remake but with a former wrestler/Guardian of the Galaxy playing the John McClane role. Scenes include crawling in an air duct, throwing a dead body off a roof to get police attention, hijacking the radio system, it is all but a 2018 remake of the Christmas classic.
It’s not all bad, stunts look computer generated but still add to the effects. The acting is wooden but fits with the gritty East London feel to proceedings and the fact that it takes place in a football stadium will attract those former Dream Team 00’s football loving lads.
That said, from the off we are made aware that the setting is that of a European Cup semi final between West Ham and the fictional Dynamo FC. Surprisingly, this is actually one of the more believable parts of the plot with a drawn out storyline about a fictional Russian despite hunting his estranged brother and in order to get to him is prepared to blow up 35,000 eager football fans.
Best Bits: It’s not soccer, it’s football.
Worst bits: The general rushed ‘little bit cheap’ feel to the whole movie.
Rating 5/10.
See if you enjoyed: Green Street, Die Hard, Dream Team.
