Die Hard 2

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Die Hard 2
Genre: Action Thriller Directed by: Renny Harlin Produced by: Charles Gordon Lawrence Gordon Joel Silver Written by: Steven E. de Souza Doug Richardson Based on: 58 Minutes by Walter Wager Starring: Bruce Willis Bonnie Bedelia William Atherton Reginald VelJohnson Franco Nero William Sadler John Amos Cinematography: Oliver Wood Editing: Stuart Baird Robert A. Ferretti Music by: Michael Kamen Production company: Gordon Company Silver Pictures Distributed by: 20th Century Fox Release date: July 4, 1990 Runtime: 124 minutes Country: United States Language: English Budget: $62–70 million Box office: $240 million Franchise: Die Hard Prequel: Die Hard Sequel: Die Hard with a Vengeance

Die Hard 2 (also stylized as Die Hard 2: Die Harder or Die Harder) is a 1990 action, thriller film directed by Renny Harlin, and it was distributed by 20th Century Fox. It's the first sequel to 1988's Die Hard.

Plot

On December 24, 1990, two years after his heroics in Los Angeles, detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) is mixed up in another terrorist plot, this time at Washington Dulles International Airport, where he is waiting for his wife (Bonnie Bedelia). That same night, South American politico and drug profiteer Ramon Esperanza (Franco Nero) is arriving in U.S. custody. McClane takes action when a treasonous ex-colonel (William Sadler) seizes control of the airport, threatening to crash every inbound flight unless Esperanza is freed.

Why It Dies Harder

1. Once again, it's a nice follow-up from the first film, with some addition from the novel 58 Minutes.
2. Bruce Willis still does a great performance as John McClane.
3. The action scenes are still great, just like the original film.
4. The "Yippie-ki-yay, motherf*cker!" line still appears.
5. Aside from Bruce Willis' performance, the acting is mostly decent, especially for Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton. William Sadler's performance as Colonel William Stuart is also good in many ways.
6. The idea of having an airport get attacked by the South American terrorist is a very great idea for a Die Hard film.
7. William Stuart is a decent villain, since he wanted to free General Ramon Esperanza from custody, ruin the Washington Dulles Airport and tried to get away from John McClane along with his minions.
8. The explosion effects were even bigger and better than the original.
9. Decent pacing for most of the film.
10. For an R-rated action film, the sequel still gives plenty of Christmas themes to make this film look like a Christmas movie, just like the first film.
11. The scene where John opens the fuel hatch, burns the fuel with his cigarette lighter, heads to Boeing 747 and blows up the plane near the end of the film is amazing.
12. Michael Kamen's soundtrack in this film is still awesome (even though some of the music in this film was recycled from the first film).
13. "Ahh, what the hell, IT'S CHRISTMAS!"

Bad Qualities

1. Some parts of the soundtrack are lazily recycled from the first movie.
2. Some of the violence isn't as good as the previous film.

Reception

The film receives positive reviews from critics, audiences, and fans of the original. It holds a 69% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 64 reviews, with an average rating of 6.15/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "It lacks the fresh thrills of its predecessor, but Die Hard 2 still works as an over-the-top – and reasonably taut – big-budget sequel, with plenty of set pieces to paper over the plot deficiencies." On the review aggregator Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating to reviews, the film has a score of 67 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Although it generally considered not as good as the first movie. William Thomas reacted very positively claimed that the movie is "More violent, more explosive and even bigger than the original".

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Trivia

• The Boeing 747's explosion at near the end of the film was very similar to Final Destination 5's plane explosion.

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