Goodbye, skyscraper...hello, airport | Die Hard 2 (Ws Ac3)

Go Bruce!!! | Die Hard 2 (Ws Ac3) | Bruce Willis, William Atherton

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	• Die Hard 2 (Ws Ac3) Bruce Willis, William Atherton 20th Century Fox, 1999 average customer review:based on 119 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Same $*ï* happens to the same guy on the same holiday 8/10 brother gives it a 7/10

Now I'm going to review the underrated 1990 sequel Die Hard 2 Die Harder just like Robocop 2 & Predator 2 that were released the same year it gets hated on. It was directed by Renny Harlin who gets undeserved hate but he directed Nightmare On Elm Street 4 & Cliffhanger. Of course Bruce Wills, Bonnie Belinda & Reginald Vel Johnson return of course Vel Johnson returns for like 5 minutes. & this would be his last Die Hard & bring back Al! Our old friend William Anteron returns. William Sadler plays Colonel Stuart, Fred Thompson as Truduea. Now my brother will share some thoughts. HOLLY! HOLLY! HERE'S YOUR LANDING LIGHT Ah man i wish mavin was here so i could light a cigarette cuz i sho ain't doing it in this jet fuel. 1Lincoln15 from Roy................... Go for 1 Lincoln 15. THEY GOT MY DAUGHTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (look for DIE HARD 5 sometime come 2011 or 12) Ok John McClane is in Washington DC to spend Christmas with Holly while he's waiting he notices guys 1 is US Colonel Stuart while he's checking that out he gets fired upon by Stuart's henchies but he manged to kill 1 & faxes finger prints SGT Powell. Which helps McClane find out more about these guys are trying to help this Centeral or South American General. McClane also has to put up with Carmine Lorenzo a by the book cop. Colonel Stuart is a good villain & just as dangerous as Hans & the man even causes a plane crash & that scene where McClane almost cries Bruce Wills sells that s*ï*. Some think Die Hard 2 is the weakest of the series but at least it's rated R & it's better than part 4. BTW stay away from the brodcast version cause all of Bruce Wills's bad words are dubbed over thst don't even sound like Wills. Also I would like to see the Die Hard 2 Workprint. I do recommend Die Hard 2 it's got a lot going for it.

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Goodbye, skyscraper...hello, airport

Die Hard 2 is basically just a few notches below the original, but it's still one heck of an action film. It still has plenty of action, drama, and occasional humor. The plot is pretty much the same, but instead of a high-rise building, the film is now set in an airport in Virginia. And sure, the story is a bit more implausible, but it's the action that's truly worth seeing. Bruce Willis returns, of course, and he just as awesome as he was in the first movie. Gun fights and explosions are still spectacular and they still hold up pretty well today. Again, it's not as great as the original, but if you are truly a fan of the Die Hard series, then you wouldn't doubt that this is a very good action film.

Grade: B

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Go Bruce!!!

Hi....I love action movies and this is one of the best Bruce Willis has made!!! Bruce Willis is one of my favorites stars, only one who is not martial arts!!!

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"Die Hard 2," subtitled "Die Harder," enters Bruce Willis in a decathlon of violence, and he places first in every event

...including wrestling for guns, jumping onto conveyor belts, being ejected from cockpits, leaping onto the wings of moving airplanes and fighting with the authorities.

This is one of those thrillers, like the "Indiana Jones" series, that I categorize as Bruised Forearm Movies, because when the movie is over your forearm is black-and-blue from where your date has grabbed it during the moments of suspense.

Why is Willis so effective in a movie like this? Maybe because he combines a relatively athletic physique with the appearance and manner of Everyman. The title of the movie describes the basic plot device: Here is a man who will not give up, who will not admit defeat, who doggedly carries on in the face of adversity. The dangers and tests he faces would daunt a James Bond, but for this open-faced cop with the receding hairline, there is no choice. After all: "My wife is on that plane!" Again this time he plays a cop on vacation. He's in Washington's Dulles airport waiting for his wife's flight to land on a crowded evening during the Christmas season. And scheduled into the same airport at the same time is a military jet bringing a South American drug tyrant to justice. A skilled band of terrorists, led by a former CIA operative, plans to seize control of airport operations by electronically bypassing the control tower. They'll shut off the airport lights, leave dozens of planes circling overhead and then cause one flight to crash, as a warning. What they want is a fully fueled standby plane, ready to spirit the dictator to freedom.

Willis, who has a cop's practiced eye, spots one of the conspirators, follows him into a luggage-handling area and discovers that a plot is afoot. But he can't convince the chief of airport security (Dennis Franz), who resents an outside cop on his turf. After a killing and various other hints (including a plane crash), the security chief finally admits he may have a problem on his hands. But even then Willis' work is not over, and by the end of the movie he is single-handedly taking on whole planeloads of mercenaries in a fight to the finish.

Because "Die Hard 2" is so skillfully constructed and well-directed, it develops a momentum that carries it past several credibility gaps that might have capsized a lesser film.

For example, how about the scene where the tower informs the circling airplanes that they'll be out of radio contact for a couple of hours, and the jets should just keep circling? Why can't those planes simply establish radio contact with other ground transmitters, and be diverted to alternate airports? Because then Willis' wife (Bonnie Bedelia) wouldn't be up there in the sky and in mortal danger, that's why.

A more serious problem involves the whole rescue operation itself. When Manuel Noriega was taken captive and returned to the United States to stand trial, there was little serious effort to save him: At the end, he was a refugee in his own country, reduced to seeking asylum in the residence of a Vatican diplomat. Would anyone have the means, the money and the will to mount such a vast and complicated terrorist operation simply to save one drug-connected dictator? Even if he does bear an uncanny resemblance to Fidel Castro? I doubt it.

But on the other hand, I don't care. "Die Hard 2" is as unlikely as the Bond pictures, and as much fun. And during a summer when violence and mayhem are allowed to substitute for imagination and good writing, this is an especially well-crafted picture. It tells a story we can identify with, it has a lot of interesting supporting characters, it handles the action sequences with calm precision, and it has a couple of scenes that are worth writing home about.

One of those is a plane crash. Not everybody's favorite image, I'll grant you. (This is a feature that will be severely edited before it becomes an in-flight movie.) Watching the plane burst into flames on a runway, I knew intellectually that I was watching special effects, probably a fairly large and detailed model photographed in slow motion.

But no matter. The crash was scarily convincing.

Another shot, more fun, is harder to describe without giving away a plot point. But it involves placing the camera's eye hundreds of feet straight up in the air and then catapulting Willis up until his nose almost touches the lens before he begins to fall to Earth again.

Not only is this shot sensationally effective in terms of the story, but as a visual it is exhilarating: I love it when a director finds a new way to show me something.

The director of "Die Hard 2" is a Finn named Renny Harlin, whose other credits include "Nightmare on Elm Street 4" and the upcoming Andrew Dice Clay picture, "Ford Fairlane." Like the Dutch-born Paul Verhoeven ("RoboCop," "Total Recall"), Harlin has taken Hollywood commercial moviemaking, shaken it and given it new energy.

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Director Renny Harlin (Cutthroat Island) took the reins of this 1990 sequel, which places Bruce Willis's New York City cop character in harm's way again with a gaggle of terrorists. This time, Willis awaits his wife's arrival at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C., when he gets wind of a plot to blow up the facility. Noisy, overbearing, and forgettable, the film has none of the purity of its predecessor's simple story; and it makes a huge miscalculation in allowing a terrible tragedy to occur rather than stretch out the tension. Where Die Hard set new precedents in action movies, Die Hard 2 is just an anything-goes spectacle. --Tom Keogh

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