Predictable and ludicrous

Rating: 3/10 (23 November 2008)

I understand action movies take creative liberties on the plausibility of certain situations, but this movie just pushes the envelope way too far. Too often did I find myself literally yelling at the screen, in the hope that maybe one of the characters, at some point, would actually use a shred of common sense.
Many others in the IMDb community gave examples of what I am talking about here - but let me add yet another; McLean and the flight engineer decide that it would be a good idea to go searching a close by small community for the terrorist hideout. When they do find it, what happens? Of course, McLean does NOT call the army... he goes in all on his own -- and for what? To get into a tussle with a sentry and ending up killing him with a goddamed icicle. Come on? Even John McLean would wait for the cavalry to show up in that situation.
I don't care how good the action and effects are... if the underlying story checks common sense at the door, it's difficult to enjoy any movie. I think Michael Bay has proved that point time and time again; and Die Hard 2 is just another entry into the mindless action blockbuster genre. Don't waste your time with this one, you could just jump right to the third installment of this series and be happily oblivious.