Die Hard 2

Action, Thriller

Bruce Willis	Det. John McClane
Bonnie Bedelia	Holly M. Gennero McClane
William Atherton	Richard Thornburg
Reginald VelJohnson	Sergeant Al Powell
Franco Nero	General Ramon Esperanza
William Sadler	Colonel Stuart
John Amos	Major Grant
Dennis Franz	Captain Carmine Lorenzo
Art Evans	Leslie Barnes
Fred Dalton Thompson	Trudeau

Director	Renny Harlin
Producer	Charles Gordon; Lawrence Gordon
Writer	Walter Wager; Steven E. De Souza

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