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Director Renny Harlin (Cutthroat Island) took the reins of this 1990 sequel, which places Bruce Willis's New York City cop character in harm's way again with a gaggle of terrorists. This time, Willis awaits his wife's arrival at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., when he gets wind of a plot to blow up the facility. Noisy, overbearing, and forgettable, the film has none of the purity of its predecessor's simple story; and it makes a huge miscalculation in allowing a terrible tragedy to occur rather than stretch out the tension. Where Die Hard set new precedents in action movies, Die Hard 2 is just an anything-goes spectacle. --Tom Keogh
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Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop who battles not only terrorists, but also an incompetent airport police chief (Dennis Franz), the hard-headed commander (John Amos) of the Army's anti-terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. The runways are littered with death and destruction, and McClane is in a race against time. His wife (Bonnie Bedelia) is trapped on one of the planes circling overhead, which is desperately low on fuel. It's all-out war, a heart-stopping, jet-propelled journey filled with excitement and terror. Fasten your seat belts!
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By Kyle Edwards
Format:UMD for PSP
The product arrived at the date stated, and was in pristine condition. i would purchase from them a million more times !
Format:DVD
After the original Die Hard the plot in this was lame. What really ruined it for me however was the excessive use of profanity. One can only deduce based on this and several other movies that those in the US armed forces need to a) drastically need to increase their vocabulary or b) need to take ESL classes, there is no way any of them could have passed English in any level of school. The script writers must have experience with the way US armed forces personel speak otherwise they could not have come up with this garbage. As I have already stated, it isn't just this movie that has this kind of portrayal, obciously the education system in the US is a miserable failure or maybe only imbeciles are allowed into the armed forces.
By A Customer
Format:DVD
Count me among the few, it seems, who believe DIE HARD 2 to be almost as good as the original DIE HARD. I personally don't understand why this sequel always seems to be undervalued in favor of the jaggedly uneven, incoherent DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE.
Certainly DIE HARD 2 is not as good as the original. It lacks the first film's grittiness and claustrophobic atmosphere (but of course a loss of the latter was expected when the scriptwriters expanded the playing field to an entire airport as opposed to one floor of a highrise); its villain is no match for DIE HARD's subtly chilling Hans Gruber; and director Renny Harlin disappointingly favors action over those little human touches that so distinguished the original, insteading favoring more action. (Besides, couldn't the screenwriters have come up with a more creative plot than simply recycling the general structure of the original? But hey, this is a Hollywood product, where it's best not to take too many chances in the quest to cash-in on a big success, which DIE HARD certainly was.)
All that being said, the action sequences are undeniably thrilling---the action of the second half, particularly, moves so quickly from one great setpiece to another that the momentum never lets up 'til the very end---and Bruce Willis is just as good as he was in the original, proving that he will always be John McClane in my mind. All in all, DIE HARD 2 is arguably even MORE entertaining viscerally than DIE HARD.
In short, DIE HARD will forever be a genre classic, but DIE HARD 2 is a worthy sequel when it comes to pure action---and when you are talking about action movies, isn't the action what's really important anyway?
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A fan's review
I would like to start by pointing out that this movie gets a lot of crap. A LOT. This is in no way as bad as the reviews may make you think, and in fact this is my favorite Die... Read more
Published on Mar 6 2004 by Maureen
3.0 out of 5 stars
Overreaches but still exciting
While this installment is the weakest of the three, it still has some exciting moments. All in all, I think the film tried so hard to top the first (best) Die Hard film, that the... Read more
Published on Feb 7 2004 by Daniel S. Russell
5.0 out of 5 stars
This was great!!!!!!!
In this movie we find John Mcclane at Dulles airport just waiting for his wife to fly in. all of the sudden terrorist take over the airport and McClanes wifes plane is forced to... Read more
Published on Feb 1 2004
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most awesomest movie
This movie has so much fire! And things blowing up! And it's even got a plot. How often do you find a movie with non-stop explosions that has a plot? Read more
Published on Dec 3 2003
2.0 out of 5 stars
Suprisingly Weak
The first, and worst, sequel to Die Hard, is terrorised by the same plot as the original. While waiting for his wife's plane to arrive at Dulles Airport (on Xmas Eve), McClane... Read more
Published on Nov 29 2003 by Inspector Gadget
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best of them all!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is wrong with you lot??!!! This is a great movie and I have to say that this is better than the first one!!! Not to say that that one was mediocre. Read more
Published on Sep 23 2003
4.0 out of 5 stars
This film would not get made today
Because of 9/11, this movie would not see the light of day if submitted to Hollywood, but it is definately a good one, as with most sequels this one suffers from redundantcy, but... Read more
Published on July 30 2003 by Michael Pettinato
4.0 out of 5 stars
McClane is back....
With the success of John McTiernan's 1988 action thriller Die Hard, moviegoers were literally overwhelmed with explosion-and-mayhem laden tales of... Read more
Published on July 15 2003 by Alex Diaz-Granados
4.0 out of 5 stars
one sequal that works
This is one sequal that stays right on line with the original. Bruce Willis is in top form in this one and for me anyway, this is the best of the two that follow the original. Read more
Published on Jun 17 2003 by Larry Comer
4.0 out of 5 stars
Yippy Kay Yay !
Good movie with good action. I still would fly on an airline just as long as Brucey ain't gonna blow it up. Yeah , it's good if you want a good sequel to a really good movie! Read more
Published on April 23 2003 by blackholesun
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