A Die Hard/Die Hard Ii/Die Hard With A Vengeance/Live Free Or Die Hard/Good Day To Die Hard [Blu-ray]

Blu-ray transfer for all 5 movies is very good, most importantly for the first 3 movies which are a bit older than the 4th and the 5th movies. There are no visible damages to the films; they all look very clean. Special Features are quite satisfactory.As for the movies themselves, I regard the first 3 movies very highly in terms of story, action and entertainment quality. I give them 5 stars.Live Free or Die Hard (the 4th installment in the series) is when the quality of the franchise starts to go down. Ridiculous action sequences ruin the movie. I understand Die Hard is an action movie and we need to suspend belief to a certain extent but some of the scenes in Live Free or Die Hard go well beyond the acceptable threshold.Spoiler Alert for Live Free or Die Hard: The following comments contain spoilers!!The scene that bothers me the most is the scene when McClane drives the SUV 70 miles per hour and hits the evil Asian female character, Mai Linh (Maggie Q) and she manages to stay on top of the hood of the SUV; she should have been thrown off with broken bones, but wait, McClane continues to drive the SUV with Mai on top of the hood, he drives the SUV through gates of steel with Mai still on top of the hood (she should have been squashed to a pulp), but wait, he continues to drive the SUV through a wall, and Mai is still holding onto to hood of the SUV, but wait, finally SUV falls down tunnel in a vertical position, hanging upside down, and Mai comes up climbing up the SUV to go after McClane. Maybe the director thought he was directing a terminator movie and mistaken the character of Mai for a female terminator cyborg who is indestructible. That whole sequence is just ridiculous. Another over-the-top action sequence happens earlier in the movie when the power goes down inside the tunnel and the cars, for some inexplicable reason, continue to drive 70-80 miles per hour and one of the cars comes flying in the air in a horizontal position and hits the two cars on the ground crashing on top of them, with McCane and Matt ducking just in time to save themselves. There are a couple of more scenes similarly over-the-top which I will not mention.A Good Day to Die Hard is just a bad movie overall. They wanted to make it different but putting the story in Russia but that didn’t help much. It’s just very formulaic, predictable and the action sequences are ridiculously over-the-top, even worse than the ones in Live Free or Die Hard. Live Free or Die Hard sequences were physically impossible but at least they built sets to shoot the scenes which created a realism from special effects perspective. A Good Day to Die Hard sequences seem to be done with more CIG elements.Despite my criticisms of the last 2 movies, I still think this is a very good collection to own for Die Hard fans or any action movie fan. The first 3 movies, the special features for all movies at the price of $20 make this box set worthy to add to your collection.

Such a great series! Love the it’s not what you thought it was moments! Makes it a thriller action movie! More Please!

The "Die Hard" movies are my favorite. Buying it last summer was well worth it, and Bruce Willis playing as John McClane who has a bad habit of being at the wrong place at the wrong time is awesome. The quality of the picture is crystal clear, and the surround sound is loud as ever, and I love it! This franchise is the best, and you won't be disappointed.

Great movies greatPrice

My family absolutely loves some Bruce Willis and the DVD'S are very good. I am so pleased with them. Thank you so very much!!

This is the five-movie blu-ray set for the Die Hard movie franchise. There have been a few different iterations of the movies put out on blu-ray including sets that just had 3, then 4 of the five total (at least to date) movies. I believe there have also been a couple of different versions of the five-movie set as well. The set I am reviewing (in case Amazon is combining reviews) is the five-movie collection that includes unrated and theatrical versions of Live Free or Die Hard (the 4th movie), and A Good Day to Die Hard (the the 5th movie).Chances are most people who are interested in getting the set are fans of the movies and have seen them all at least once. Pretty much everyone agrees that the first movie, put out in 1988 is iconic, not only because it saw Bruce Willis transition from a TV star to an action movie star, but also was a breakout performance for Alan Rickman (who is probably best known for his role as Snape in the Harry Potter franchise) as the great villain, Hans Gruber. The first film was a movie about a NY city cop who ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time in Los Angeles in a building taken over by terrorists. As the franchise went on, the movies took on a larger scale, required more suspension of disbelief, and, at least in my opinion, never really equaled the quality of the first movie.The sequels were of varying quality. I think there are varying opinions on which is the best and which is the worst of the sequels, but I think everyone agrees that having the 4th movie release with a PG-13 rating for the theatrical version was a big mistake. In all of them, for various reasons, Willis' character is an imperfect hero who ends up in outrageous situations where he has to take down a bunch of bad guys. That part of the storyline never really deviates throughout the franchise, but they manage to pull it off by not having the movies be carbon copies of each other.There are a lot of extras for each movie. The 4th and 5th movies have the most behind the scenes and making-of material, and all of them have deleted and/or extended scenes, at least one commentary track, and other extras (like a gag reel, trailers and TV spots, etc,) vary from movie-to-movie.Overall, the Die Hard franchise is meant to be fun, summer action movies. They do not have award-winning acting and writing, even though there have been many good to great actors appearing (Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Olyphant, Alan Rickman, etc.). If you accept that, they are fun movies, and for people who are big fans of the franchise, you get a lot of extras to watch (more than the total running time of all the movies combined). For casual fans, this set may be a bit much, however, and you may just want to get the individual movie(s) you like.

Love Bruce Willis. Didn’t know there were 5 movies in the series. Great action.