A worthy sequel.

Rating: 7/10 (9 January 2014)

DIE HARD 2
Bruce Willis is back as John McClane. Life after the terrorist attack on the Nakatomi building has not been better for Detective McClane. He is happy with his wife, his job is going well and he is happy but when he goes to the airport to pick his wife up, things just don't seem right. John sees a couple of men looking very suspicious when police officers walk past them little does John know that following them would mean that he is stumbling across a big terrorist takeover at the airport. It is now down to John again to stop the terrorists that plan on crashing a lot of planes to get what they want.
This film is a good movie but nowhere near as good as the original. It is a lot of fun, but it is a hell of a coincidence that John just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time again!
The action in this movie is great. Again, like the first film there are some great fighting scenes and shoot ups. The explosions are not very realistic. You can see that a lot of them are pasted onto the backgrounds with computers especially the scene where John uses an ejector seat to get out of a plane that is about to explode. It looks bad but I can imagine that back in 1990 when the movie was made it looked great. I still like the bad effects though to be honest. It gives it a nice retro feel to the movie.
The acting is as good as the first film with a lot of characters making the crossover from the original. Bruce Willis returns as John, his wife is again played by Bonnie Bedelia. William Atherton is also back as the slimy reporter and yes, he is as annoying in this as he was in the first. Reginald VelJohnson makes a nice little cameo as Johns partner from the first film, Al. And we have some new cast members for the sequel. William Sadler plays the main villain Col. Stewart. William is an evil looking bloke. He does a great job as a bad guy. He has a very cold stare. John Amos also has a great role in this film as the "take no prisoners" soldier Maj. Grant. John does a great job. I mainly know John from Coming to America where he is so funny but in this he plays a bad ass that takes no trouble. He does it very well and is one of my favourite characters in the film.
There are some classic comedy lines in this film, again mimicking the original and Bruce says his catchphrase right at the end let's face it though, everyone is waiting for him to say "Yippie-Kai-Yay, Mother fu" and when he says it, you can't help but smile. The other thing I like about his character is no matter how much trouble he is in, he always seems to manage to be funny. His sarcasm is brilliant.
The film is again set at Christmas time, which makes it feel like a Christmas movie even though you don't get to see Santa anywhere. Why does John always get himself in this kind of trouble at this time of year? The good news is in Die Hard 3, it is the summer time.
This is a worthy sequel and is a great addition to the franchise. If you liked the first one then you should like this one.
I will give this film 7 out of 10.
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