Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Rating: 7/10 (16 June 2005)

After the blockbusting success of the first film, director Renny Harlin (The Long Kiss Goodnight) brought back the humorous, wise-cracking and admirable hero in the wrong place at the wrong time. It is Christmas Eve again, one year since the events at the Nakatomi Plaza Building, and LAPD Lt. John McClane (Bruce Willis) is in Dulles International Airport in Arlington, Viginia, waiting for the flight his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) is on, as their kids are visiting her parents in Washington. In the airport John hunches suspicious activity, and of course, they start shooting at him, one gets away. Soon enough, terrorists have made sure that all planes landing at this airport will either crash from false navigation or running out of fuel. The leader Colonel Stuart (William Sadler) wants the airport to make sure that a plane from Escelan Airport in the Republic of Valverde, carrying General Ramon Esperanza (Franco Nero), guilty of drug handling, can land at this airport where he wants, be undisturbed, and then they get away. Holly's plane is obviously one of the 18 planes circling the airport and in danger. John is now on the lookout for the villains to stop their plan, and bring his wife down to the ground safely. Also starring William Atherton returning as Richard "Dick" Thornberg, a brief return from Reginald VelJohnson as Al Powell, John Amos as Maj. Grant, Dennis Franz as Carmine Lorenzo, Tom Bower as Marvin, Sheila McCarthy as Samantha Copeland, Don Harvey as Garber, Terminator 2's Robert Patrick as O'Reilly, a quick John Leguizamo as Burke, Vondie Curtis-Hall as Miller and Mark Boone Junior as Shockley. To be honest this isn't as intense and gripping as the previous film, but the action and stunt (most done by Willis himself sequences, Willis, and the catchphrase "Yippee-ki-yay mother f***er" can't disappoint. Bruce Willis was number 35 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars. Very good!