Not A Patch On First Movie But Still Entertaining Enough

Rating: 8/10 (23 December 2014)

Following the theory that success is not to be tampered with. Director Renny Harlin has assembled the Heroes from "Die Hard" and poured them into a story little changed from the first movie.
In fairness, the story has been updated a little, but not that much, as John McClaine himself says "How can the same s**t happen to the same guy twice??"
Plot In A Paragraph: It's Christmas and John McClane (Bruce Willis) is about to go through it all again. A team of terrorists, led by Col. Stuart (William Sadler) is holding the entire airport hostage. The terrorists are planning to rescue a drug lord from justice. In order to do so, they have seized control of all electrical equipment affecting all planes. With no runway lights available, all aircraft have to remain in the air, with fuel running low, McClane will need to be fast, as his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) is on one of the planes in the air.
Willis is again in good form, Bedelia is good but a little under used, William Atherton returns as TV reporter William Thornburg as does Reginald Vel-Johnson as Sergeant Al Powell. John Amos is good as Major Grant, and Robert Patrick is effective in a small role. Lauren Letherer stands out in a small role as a cute rent a car girl who hits on McClaine. Surprised she didn't appear in much more.
Whilst it's not a patch on the first movie, it's still an enjoyable one that I will watch every now and again. It's got a few problems with pacing and the villains of the piece are not a patch on Alan Rickman and co from the first movie, and we seem to have the worlds dumbest SWAT team in the world.