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User Reviews for: Die Hard 2

Acoucalancha
8/10  3 months ago
>*"Just once i'd like a regular, normal Christmas... eggnog, a fucking Christmas tree, a little turkey... but, no, I got to crawl around in this motherfucking tin can."*

Nothing could ever beat the original but ***Die Harder*** is a great follow up and it's better than your average action movie for sure. It's a little less of a Christmas movie but there's a ton of snow. The stakes are higher this time, there's a lot more lives on the line including McClane's wife, which make McClane more desperate in a way and that's interesting.

They once again created some interesting new characters and storylines, I even liked Holly's storyline on the plane. John Amos as Major Grant was a standout as well and even Dennis Franz as Capt. Lorenzo. The villains aren't nearly as memorable as Alan Rickman and his gang but they're compelling nonetheless.

The action sequences are just as good as the first. The original had a lot of quiet moments in between the action sequences, well not this one, i'd say there's more action overall. More guns, more explosions, satisfying bloody kills, some of the best Ski-Doo chase sequences i've seen and lots of funny one-liners just like the first. Despite the long runtime it breezed by. Epic finale!
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talisencrw
/10  6 years ago
Great fun re-watching this after checking out the original for the first time. One of the very best filmic franchises out there, to be sure.
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GenerationofSwine
/10  one year ago
I was 10 in 1990, I loved Die Hard, and I hated Die Hard 2.

Now I'm 40 and I am rewatching this and.... compared to movies today it is pretty good. If this was made in 2020 it would be a 10 out of 10 star smash blockbusting hit that all of America raves about except the "everything is political all the time crowd."

But it didn't, it came out in 1990 and because of that it was a subpar sort of BS action movie that in no way lived up to the first one.

The thing is... I'm writing the review in 2020. Today it's a good movie if you compare it to most everything in the theaters today and especially to the new Die Hard movies.
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CinemaSerf
/10  2 months ago
If anyone were ever to need to write a training manual for terrorists that demonstrated how to maximise the chaos and destruction at a facility; then they could do a great deal worse than engage the services of Bruce Willis. In this cracking action adventure film, he is "Lt. John McClane" who finds himself amidst a hijacking - but this time it's not the plane that's being hijacked, it's the whole airport - and all so a drug-dealing general can escape justice with the help of some rogue highly trained military types. Willis has bags of charisma, and he needs it as he has to persuade sceptical authorities and other cops of the critical risk - and all before an incoming flight carrying his wife (with quite a fun little sub-plot of it's own) runs out of fuel. The dialogue is sometimes quite pithy, and Tom Bower is fine as "Marvin" (the janitor who gets roped in too). It does lack menace, maybe Willis' style of characterisation is just a bit too laid back; the smile and the glint - but it's still an end to end action thriller with plenty of pyrotechnics and near misses to fill a couple of hours in a world of mindless cinema. It's not quite as good at the first one, but there's not that much to it.
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