Die Hart (2023) Movie Video Mp4 Download Movie

Yikes! The streaming world is increasingly bait and switch, but this latest venture on Amazon Prime is one of the oddest efforts to date. Eric Appel’s Die Hart: The Movie is an action comedy listed by Amazon as being made in 2023; it’s not, it’s an episodic tv show from 2020 that was made for the short lived Quibi streaming service, which began and ended unnoticed during the worldwide pandemic lockdowns. Quibi was based around the idea that what we needed was short-form online entertainment, and was quickly scrapped when it proved that we really didn’t need that at all; this disjointed 85 minute feature is one of the few remnants to survive the era.

Despite the title, Die Hard isn’t mentioned or referenced; this is a silly, industry-insider comedy that is pretty poor in comparison to The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Where that movie had Nicolas Cage sending himself up to good effect, discovering his inner action hero when he gets involved in real life drama, this one features Kevin Hart playing himself, finding his inner action hero when he gets involved in real life drama. It’s an ancient comedy trope, of a protagonist who can’t tell if the shenanigans he’s caught up in are staged or not, as featured in everything from The Paleface to The Magnificent Two to Three Amigos, and Die Hart doesn’t do much to invigorate such a tired concept.

We initially find Hart railing against his own success as the second banana to The Rock in a successful franchise much like the awful Jumani films; hoping to prove himself a real action man, Hart enrols in a special stunt school run by Ron Wilcox (John Travolta), who claims to have trained stars from Matt Damon to Jason Statham to transform from snowflakes to tough guys. Jordan King (Natalie Emmanuel) is along for the ride, with shifty director Claude Van De Velde (Jean Reno) secretly filming the results as Hart goes from zero to hero.

Die Hart is more interested in providing pratfalls for Hart that any meta-textual cleverness; Hart seeks to find out the truth about Wilcox’s school, but ends up caught up in plotlines which may or may not have been constructed. Given that the central idea of the film comes from generating tension and comedy from whether real guns and blanks are being used on a film set or not, the Rust tragedy instantly dates the story here, while the personal development narrative in which Hart ends up teaching Ron Wilcox about being an action star is far too abrupt a twist.

When the bonus of a film is a cameo from Josh Hartnett as himself, you’re know you’re onto plums, and while schlepping ten episodes together of a busted series for a defunct streamer and passing it off as a new movie seems pretty low, the race-to-the bottom streaming wars are likely to offer up more misbegotten projects like this. To be positive, Die Hart is a better Kevin Hart film than last year’s dismal Netflix movie Me Time, and presumably lowering Hart’s marketplace cache suits Amazon long-term, but Die Hart is a return to the bandit days of splicing episodes of a tv show together and pretending it’s a movie, a strategy used back in the day on everything from The Man From Uncle to Battlestar Galactica. If nothing else, it shows that Amazon Prime are fully committed to rooking their customers with cobbled together product in the classic Hollywood rip-off style.