Bad case of Deja Vu; paging John McClane!!

Rating: Null/10 (6 March 2003)

DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER (1990) ***1/2 Bruce Willis returns as being the right man in the wrong place at the right time, super cop John McClane, this time again at Christmas but at Washington, D.C. 's Dulles Airport facing a renegade colonel (William Sadler in pure sadistic form) terrorizing the airways to welcome a political enemy to safety and sabotage. Willis does his best stuff despite some roadblocks: airport security pain in the neck chief Dennis Franz; special forces commander John Amos and the media led by William Atherton, the smarmy LA journalist who happens to be aboard Holly McClane's (Bedelia again) hovering jet and broadcasting panic -stricken hyprbole! Best bit from director Renny Harlin is Willis making a quick-thinking ejection from the cockpit of a downed plane full of hand grenades! (Look sharp for John Leguizamo and Robert Patrick as two of Sadler's henchmen and Colm Meaney as a doomed British pilot)