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Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)
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Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 26
Rotten:16
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: An action-packed sequel to the 1989 film "Die Hard." While former New York City cop John McClane, now a member of the Los Angeles Police Department, waits to pick up his wife in DC's Dulles... An action-packed sequel to the 1989 film "Die Hard." While former New York City cop John McClane, now a member of the Los Angeles Police Department, waits to pick up his wife in DC's Dulles Airport, gunmen suddenly commandeer the building. They're intent on rescuing a drug-dealing foreign despot who's being brought to the US to stand trial. And once again McClane finds himself enmeshed in a terrorist plot that only he can prevent... [More]
Starring: Bruce Willis, Dennis Franz, John Amos, Bonnie Bedelia
Starring: Bruce Willis, Dennis Franz, John Amos, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson, William Sadler, Jeff Langton
Director: Renny Harlin
Director: Renny Harlin
Screenwriter: Steven E. De Souza, Doug Richardson
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Joel Silver, Charles Gordon
Composer: Michael Kamen
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Reviews for Die Hard 2: Die Harder
"How can the same thing happen to the same guy twice?" asks a bewildered and ultra-ironic John McClane. Well, make a film as successful as Die Hard and you'll soon find out.
If your idea of a good time is watching a lot of stupid, unpleasant people insult and brutalize one another, this is right up your alley.
Merely a serviceable action flick, sorely missing both a sense of stylistic clarity as well as the glorious excess this kind of modern western-meets-Indiana Jones affair deserves.
No one carries a one-liner better than Willis. He's also unusual among Hollywood's Action Men in seeming vulnerable at the same time as being invincible.
This disappointing followup to Die Hard has more action and bigger action, but considerably less suspense.
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