Die Hard sequel leaves critics cold

The latest instalment in Bruce Willis's Die Hard action franchise has received a largely frosty response from critics.
"Last is least," bemoaned the Hollywood Reporter, while The Scotsman called it a "limp parody" of the 1988 original.
"The sense of exhilaration and fun that marked the best of the series has gone unaccountably AWOL," opined Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times.
A Good Day to Die Hard, the plot of which sees Willis's John McClane travel to Russia, is out now in the US and UK.
Reviews were not published until the day of release at the request of 20th Century Fox, the film's distributor.
Willis has reprised his signature character, a wise-cracking New York cop with a talent for foiling complex criminal schemes, on four occasions since his introduction in the original Die Hard movie.

His latest outing, directed by Ireland's John Moore, sees him join forces with his adult son Jack (Jai Courtney) to protect a Russian whistleblower with links to a nuclear conspiracy.
According to USA Today's Claudia Puig, the "obnoxious, over the top and often dull" result constitues "a feeble attempt to rehash action-hero glories".
"Opening this bullet-riddled snoozefest on Valentine's Day [14 February] seems particularly wrong-headed," the reviewer continued.
"A trip outside the US does the franchise few favours," wrote Empire's Kim Newman, saying the film's "few reasonable action sequences are mired in family soap".