Die Hard 2 (1990)
(Die Hard 2: Die Harder)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 124m
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Franco Nero
Synopsis:
Meeting his wife at Washington airport for Christmas, John McClane suspects and then foils a terrorist takeover of the facility, while being hampered by official incompetence and double agency.
Review:
Perfunctory sequel, apparently rushed out for a Yuletide release date, and it shows: an increased body count papers over the cracks of a thinly written plot about a South American drug baron, the snow is clearly fake, a plane 'running on fumes' explodes into an all-consuming fireball (i.e. cheap thrills replace logic), earlier motifs make their reappearance wholesale (fretting wife, asshole media type, black accomplice) and Dennis Franz's sceptical police captain is just too much of a familiar staple to be in any way credible. No number of self-ironizing lines from Willis (e.g. 'How can this shit happen to the same guy twice?') can disguise the poverty of writing in this cynical potboiler. Having said all that, it will inevitably pass the time agreeably enough if you're not feeling too demanding; viewed twenty years later, it all seems charmingly innocent even.
(Die Hard 2: Die Harder)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 124m
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Franco Nero
Synopsis:
Meeting his wife at Washington airport for Christmas, John McClane suspects and then foils a terrorist takeover of the facility, while being hampered by official incompetence and double agency.
Review:
Perfunctory sequel, apparently rushed out for a Yuletide release date, and it shows: an increased body count papers over the cracks of a thinly written plot about a South American drug baron, the snow is clearly fake, a plane 'running on fumes' explodes into an all-consuming fireball (i.e. cheap thrills replace logic), earlier motifs make their reappearance wholesale (fretting wife, asshole media type, black accomplice) and Dennis Franz's sceptical police captain is just too much of a familiar staple to be in any way credible. No number of self-ironizing lines from Willis (e.g. 'How can this shit happen to the same guy twice?') can disguise the poverty of writing in this cynical potboiler. Having said all that, it will inevitably pass the time agreeably enough if you're not feeling too demanding; viewed twenty years later, it all seems charmingly innocent even.
(Die Hard 2: Die Harder)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 124m
Director: Renny Harlin
Cast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Franco Nero
Synopsis:
Meeting his wife at Washington airport for Christmas, John McClane suspects and then foils a terrorist takeover of the facility, while being hampered by official incompetence and double agency.
Review:
Perfunctory sequel, apparently rushed out for a Yuletide release date, and it shows: an increased body count papers over the cracks of a thinly written plot about a South American drug baron, the snow is clearly fake, a plane 'running on fumes' explodes into an all-consuming fireball (i.e. cheap thrills replace logic), earlier motifs make their reappearance wholesale (fretting wife, asshole media type, black accomplice) and Dennis Franz's sceptical police captain is just too much of a familiar staple to be in any way credible. No number of self-ironizing lines from Willis (e.g. 'How can this shit happen to the same guy twice?') can disguise the poverty of writing in this cynical potboiler. Having said all that, it will inevitably pass the time agreeably enough if you're not feeling too demanding; viewed twenty years later, it all seems charmingly innocent even.