The Original Was Better

Rating: 4/10 (23 August 2004)

The original DIE HARD was one of the greatest action movies of the 1980s and deserves to be in the IMDB top 250 movies . Unfortunately the sequel while not being poor is far inferior mainly down to the reason that it works in an opposite direction to the first movie
First of all the original used claustraphobia as a setting , John McLane was trapped in a high rise building where people wanted to kill him . He was a hero because his life depended on it where as here he`s a stereotypical stock good guy who could have easily left everything to the experts . Yeah okay his wife is in danger but is this a convincing motive for McLane running the show ?
Secondly because McLane has to interact with many characters it shows that Bruce Willis isn`t a very good actor ( In my opinion ) though to be honest he isn`t helped by poor dialogue . In the original talk scenes are kept to a minimum
Thirdly the stunts that made the first movie are inferior here not to mention being overblown . Was anyone convinced by the ejector seat scene ? It looks like it was all done by computer generated graphics to me

Like I said it`s not a poor action movie but it is a disappointing one