Die Deutschen sind wieder los! And there just as mean and twice as ugly!

Rating: 8/10 (29 July 2000)

This film stays true to Hollywood's favourite villains, the GERMANS, there are no people who are so often cast as villains (I wonder why) and only the Russians get close. But they tend to do a good job, so why not use them. Or as they did here, hire an American or Englishman (just as they did in the 1st one) and let him pretend to be a German. OK his German isn't that good (his brother Hans' was a tag worse so here is an improvement). But at least some of the henchmen are real German's so there is a bit of good German spoken in the film.

I found it really great that the original cast / crew was assembled here Bruce Willis of course and also John McTiernan, who is a great director. The cast was greatly enriched with the great Samuel L.Jackson (who is one of the best and most successful supporting actors of OUR time). The bad guy was good too, you know, playing games, making riddles and riddles hard to solve when the clock is ticking and he wasn't too stupid either, he would have succeeded if he hadn't made one little mistake in the end, but hey, how should he know McClane would escape. It was really impossible from the villains point of view!!!

But to cut the yip yap on to the film, it is great, it has got some great action sequences, great acting (for an action flick), good direction and of course enough profanity and dumb comments to make you laugh you fu..ing a.. off. I mean I've seen it 6 or 7 times since 1997 (that's 7 TIMES in THREE YEARS) and I still love it, the only pity is that it is cut to 123 minutes (I need to see the uncut version!!!!) and there was quite a lot of cutting in the version I saw. It appeared to me that there were cut's during the cutting up the guard scene (not sure about that one though), the elevator scene, during the falling on the boat and disposing scene and last, but not least in the fight with Targo scene.

Now for a bit of SPOILER stuff I guess about solving the 3 and 5 gallon bottle mystery (hell I just figured it out during the 7th time I saw this one. Ain't I STUPID???). Well this is for the folks that don't get it either:

You fill the 5 gallon totally up, then you put 3 of those 5 gallons in the 3 gallon bottle. After that you empty the 3 gallon bottle and our the 2 gallon from the 5 gallon bottle in the three gallon bottle (STATUS: 5 gallon bottle = 0 gallons and 3 gallon bottle = 2 gallons). After that you fill the 5 gallon bottle up and then you fill the missing gallon in the 3 gallon bottle with the water from the filled up 5 gallon bottle. That leaves you exactly 4 gallon in the 5 gallon bottle!!!

8 / 10