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Die Hard 2 (1990)

"Die harder."
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👍 90%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 68%
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Runtime
2h 4m
Rated
R
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 · 69% avg
Bonnie Bedelia as Holly McClane · 74% avg
William Sadler as Stuart · 71% avg
John Amos as Major Grant · 76% avg
Franco Nero as General Ramon Esperanza · 75% avg
William Atherton as Richard Thornberg · 71% avg
Dennis Franz as Capt. Carmine Lorenzo · 78% avg
Art Evans as Leslie Barnes · 74% avg

Is Die Hard 2 good?

Yes. 90% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 68%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#86 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#4 / 65 · 1990
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 17 · Renny Harlin

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

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 ↗

About the Film

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 — including Holly's — 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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