Liked the other 2, this just is too much

Rating: Null/10 (13 March 2002)

I liked the first Die Hard fine, and the third I think was a great, great movie. But in DH2, I just couldn't get over the movie's premise: Terrorists were going to extort the government or else they would disable Dulles Airport in Washington, and then all of the planes would simply run out of gas with nowhere to land!!!
How many airports are within even reserve fuel capacity of Dulles - 100? 200? 2000?! This movie doesn't deserve nit-picking, but that is one of the lamer plot contrivance I've ever heard of.