Die Hard 2 (1990) movie poster

Die Hard 2 (1990)

"Die harder."
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๐Ÿ‘ 90%Google users liked it archived
Critics Score
๐ŸŽฌ 68% (RT: 68%, MC: 67) โ„น๏ธRT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Runtime
2h 4m
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.0/10 (6,302 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
68%
Metacritic
67
Cast
Bruce Willis as John McClane
Bonnie Bedelia as Holly McClane
William Sadler as Stuart
John Amos as Major Grant
Franco Nero as General Ramon Esperanza
William Atherton as Richard Thornberg
Dennis Franz as Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
Art Evans as Leslie Barnes
Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it based on 6,302 votes. Critics scored it lower at 68%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead. Wikipedia โ†—
Fun Facts
  • The original script for Die Hard 2 was written over a decade before production finally began in 1990.
  • The incredible score for Die Hard 2 was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
  • During the filming of Die Hard 2, Bruce Willis improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
Audience Consensus

Die Hard 2 is a 1990 American action thriller directed by Renny Harlin, the sequel to John McTiernan's 1988 classic. Bruce Willis returns as John McClane, who arrives at Washington Dulles International Airport on Christmas Eve to meet his wife's incoming flight, only to discover that a rogue military unit has seized the airport's communication systems and air traffic control, holding all incoming planes โ€” including Holly's โ€” hostage by preventing them from landing while their fuel runs out. The terrorists' objective is to facilitate the escape of a deposed Central American dictator being extradited to the United States.

The airport setting gave McClane a larger, more public stage than the Nakatomi tower, and the film delivered several spectacular set pieces including a snowmobile chase on the runway, a fight in the airport's baggage system, and the climactic ignition of a fuel trail that destroyed a plane in mid-takeoff. Die Hard 2 earned $240 million worldwide on a $70 million budget.

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