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TAKE a walk down Memory McClane. It has been an incredible 25 years since John McClane (Bruce Willis) first stormed the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles to rescue his wife from German terrorist Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) in the original Die Hard.

Since then, the wise-cracking hero has battled terrorists in an airport, played deadly games with Gruber’s psychotic brother in New York City and hacked down a gang of cyber terrorists in the company of his daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead).

For this fifth chapter, his son Jack (Jai Courtney) enters the cinematic fray, joining the old man on an explosive jaunt through Moscow to prevent disgraced Russian general Komorov (Sebastian Koch) from wreaking havoc.

Irish director John Moore (Max Payne) keeps a tight rein on the pyrotechnics. As the poster tagline succinctly puts it: Yippee-ki-yay, Mother Russia.