Die Hard 2

1990

2h 4m

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7.0/10

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One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

Directors

Renny Harlin

Writers

Steven E. de Souza(screenplay by)

Doug Richardson(screenplay by)

Walter Wager(novel by)

Stars

Bruce Willis

Bonnie Bedelia

William Sadler

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John McClane

Holly McClane

Stuart

Major Grant

General Ramon Esperanza

William Atherton

Richard Thornberg

Dennis Franz

Capt. Carmine Lorenzo

Leslie Barnes

Trudeau

Marvin

Samantha 'Sam' Coleman

Garber

Sgt. Al Powell

Baker

Thompson

O'Reilly

Sheldon

Burke

Directors

Renny Harlin

Writers

Steven E. de Souza(screenplay by)

Doug Richardson(screenplay by)

Walter Wager(novel by)

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7/10

If anyone were ever to need to write a training manual for terrorists that demonstrated how to maximise the chaos and destruction at a facility; then they could do a great deal worse than engage the services of Bruce Willis. In this cracking action adventure film, he is "Lt. John McClane" who finds himself amidst a hijacking - but this time it's not the plane that's being hijacked, it's the whole airport - and all so a drug-dealing general can escape justice with the help of some rogue highly trained military types. Willis has bags of charisma, and he needs it as he has to persuade sceptical authorities and other cops of the critical risk - and all before an incoming flight carrying his wife (with quite a fun little sub-plot of it's own) runs out of fuel. The dialogue is sometimes quite pithy, and Tom Bower is fine as "Marvin" (the janitor who gets roped in too). It does lack menace, maybe Willis' style of characterisation is just a bit too laid back; the smile and the glint - but it's still an end to end action thriller with plenty of pyrotechnics and near misses to fill a couple of hours in a world of mindless cinema. It's not quite as good at the first one, but there's not that much to it.

Geronimo196726 Aug, 2023