A great blockbuster, but not a Christmas movie

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2019)

Die Hard 2 is the sequel to Die Hard and it has Bruce Willis reprising his role as John McClane. It's Christmas Eve again and John is about to meet his wife at the airport, but when terrorists hijack the airport, its up to John McClane to save the day again. If you think that this plot may seem similar it's because it already happened in the first one. This movie tries way to hard to be like the first one, but it's ultimately a parody of the first one. I think of Die Hard 2 as the Emo child in the Die Hard franchise as it wants to be edgy and dark so that it can make the first Die Hard proud. Someone in the cast and crew spiked everyone's eggnog and came up with a brilliant idea for them do the same thing, but in an airport. If you think that the first one is filled with one-liners, then you haven't watched Die Hard 2 as they pump one-liner after one-liner so they can retain some of the humor as the first one did. But hearing some of those was so irritating I thought someone was scratching a chalkboard and some of the actors and actresses looked like it took so much energy and effort to say those lines that I could feel their cringe from the comfort of my living room. But despite everything I just said it does make a pretty good blockbuster instead of a Christmas movie, as I didn't feel the spirit of Christmas as I did in the first one. I think everybody knew that this is the last time that they use a Christmas plot in a Die Hard movie and they wanted to squeeze one more Christmas plot before they hang up and move on to another story in the Die Hard franchise and for that I'll let this slide. Overall, its still fun to watch during the holidays, but its not the same as the first one, but you cant deny it does make for an entertaining blockbuster.