Originally shown as minisodes. Amazon has turned the original streaming series to a movie.
Die Hart does not have much of an original premise. Michael J Fox played an actor who tags along with a cop in The Hard Way. In Showtime, Eddie Murphy and Robert de Niro are cops in a reality television show.
In Die Hart, Kevin Hart plays a comic variation of himself. He's had enough of being a sidekick in comedies. He wants to be an action star despite his short stature.
However a meltdown on live television threatens to send his career dwindling. However an offer from action director Claude Van De Velde (Jean Reno) is too good to pass up.
Hart goes goes to a training camp in the remote wilderness to be taught to be an action star by Ron Wilcox (John Travolta.) Hart is later joined by actress Jordan King (Nathalie Emmanuel.)
Hart does not like Wilcox and is suspicious of him. That Wilcox has fallen out with some gangsters. Hart also thinks that he is being filmed.
Later actor Josh Hartnett drops by extolling the virtues of Wilcox as an action tutor.
Die Hart is rather predictable, slightly amusing. It was agreeable without any major surprises. Travolta was fun.
If it was made now, the real bullet gun scenes would be cut in light of the Alec Baldwin affair.
