In retrospect, rather tiresome

Rating: 5/10 (19 May 2001)

Bruce Willis doesn't get on well with Christmas in Die Hard, so we have obvious grounds for a sequel. Set at Dallas Airport, Willis has to try and overcome some terrorists who are threatening to let planes drop from the sky - including the one bringing his wife home.
This is everything that was Hollywood in the 80s [despite this being made in 1990], action, big explosions, gun fights and not a lot else. Any semblance of a plot is out of the window -- although that's not why you watch these films is it?
In comparison to the other great sequels of the time, the Lethal Weapon films, this really does look aged and haggard. The Lethal Weapon series at least moved on, and developed the characters well as they got older and moved with the times.
Credit must go to Dennis Franz, who might as well have been called Officer Stereotype. How an actor could be so desparate as to play possibly the most one dimensional character in film history, one can always wonder.
Watch it when having a few beers on a Saturday night. Preferrably about a dozen of them.