Die Hard 2: Special Edition (Widescreen) [2 Discs]: Amazon.ca: DVD: DVD

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Super Fast, Feb 10 2011

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This review is from: Die Hard 2: Die Harder [UMD for PSP] (UMD for PSP)

The product arrived at the date stated, and was in pristine condition. i would purchase from them a million more times !

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2.0 out of 5 stars Anyone here speak English?, Feb 6 2008

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Nigel R. Gates "Reality Check" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Die Hard 2 (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.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Almost as good as the original, May 31 2004

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This review is from: Die Hard 2: Special Edition (Widescreen) [2 Discs] (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 Steven

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