Once again on Christmas, John McClane (Bruce Willis), finds himself battling terrorists in order to protect his wife. This time, he stumbles into them at the airport where they are trying to free a South American Fascist leader.
Quick Review: It is unfair to compare the sequel to the original Die Hard, but I just can’t help it. That was an inspired action adventure. Die Hard 2 (sometimes subtitled Die Harder) is a routine shoot-em-up. I could believe that it was possible, just barely possible, that John McClane could carry out his amazing feats in the first, but here, where an L.A. cop can leap from a helicopter to a plane wing, I just wasn’t buying it. Still, for a by-the-numbers thriller, I wasn’t bored. I didn’t really care either, but it was an OK way to spend two hours. The villains had names which I didn’t bother to remember as numbers would have been more fitting: Military Villain 1, Military Villain 2, Dictator Villain 1, Stupid Airport Cop 1. No one had any kind of real personality. People ran about and shot at each other. There were some punches. And lots of stuff blew up. If you are looking for a movie where stuff like that happens, Die Hard 2 will work, but there is no reason to pick it over a dozen similar films.