DIE HARD 2
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Well this film was on TV last night so I thought I'd write up a review on it while it was fresh in my head!!
After Die Hard became a huge hit, it wasn't surprising that a sequel was made in 1990. Die Hard 2: Die Harder was just as entertaining as ... Read review
Director Renny Harlin (Cutthroat Island) took the reins of this 1990 sequel, which places ... more
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 Washi...
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On a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital a team of terrorists has seized a major ... more
International Airport and now holds thousands of holiday travellers hostage. The terrorists a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer (William Sadler) have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency except one: John McClane an off-duty cop seized by a feeling of deadly de-ja-vu. Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop who battles not only terrorists but also an incompetent airport police chief (Dennis Franz) the hard-headed commander (John Amos) of the army's anti-terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. The runways are littered with death and destruction and McClane is in a race against time. His wife (Bonnie Bedelia) is trapped on one of the planes circling somewhere overhead desperately low on fuel. It's all-out war a heartstopping jet-propelled journey through excitement and terror. Fasten your seatbelts!
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On a snowy Christmas Eve, in the nation's capital, a team of terrorists has seized a major ... more
international airport, and now holds thousands of holiday travellers hostage. The terrorists, a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer (William Sadler), have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency, except one: John McClane, an off-duty seized by a feeling of deadly deja vu.Bruce Willis returns as the heroic cop who battles not only terrorists, but also an incompetent airport police chief (Dennis Franz), the hard-headed commander (John Amos) of the army's anti-terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. The runways are littered with death and destruction, and McClane is in a race against time. His wife (Bonnie Bedelia) is trapped on one of the planes circling somewhere overhead, desperately low on fuel.It's all-out war, a heart-stopping, jet-propelled journey through excitement and terror. Fasten your seatbelts!
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Advantages: AMAZING film!! :-D Even better than the first! Disadvantages: Some things in the film are "exaggerated..."!!
== DIE HARD 2 ==
=== FILM ONLY REVIEW ===
Well this film was on TV last night so I thought I'd write up a review on it while it was fresh in my head!!
After Die Hard became a huge hit, it wasn't surprising that a sequel was made in 1990. Die Hard 2: Die Harder was just as entertaining as the first movie.
Die Hard 2: Die Harder followed the pattern of the first film in having everything ... ...If you watched the first Die Hard and loved it, then you'll love this one even more, its an amazing film!! again its got the undertones of humour! :-)
And well who can complain about any film with Bruce Willis to perv at!!! :-p
=== Main Cast ===
John Amos - Major Grant
William Atherton - Richard Thornburg
Bonnie Bedelia - Holly McClane
Dennis Franz - Captain Carmine Lorenzo more
DIE HARD 2
FILM ONLY REVIEW
Well this film was on TV last night so I thought I'd write up a review on it while it was fresh in my head!!
After Die Hard became a huge hit, it wasn't surprising that a sequel was made in 1990. Die Hard 2: Die Harder was just as entertaining as the first movie.
Die Hard 2: Die Harder followed the pattern of the first film in having everything take place over the course of a few hours on Christmas Eve. I think it was supposed to be a year after the events of the first movie..
John McClane was waiting at the Dulles airport to pick up his wife ,Holly, on Christmas Eve.
John was already in Washington, D.C. with their kids to spend the holiday with Holly’s parents.
Unfortunately John wasn’t going to have a peaceful holiday. Colonel Stuart was leading a team of mercenaries and they took over the airport, cutting off certain systems so that the control tower couldn’t talk to the planes in the air. The planes were in holding patterns because Stuart wouldn’t let any of them land. Stuart intended to free a drug lord that was being brought into the country. John quickly realized that something was wrong even before the mercenaries acted, but he couldn’t get anyone to listen to him. John didn’t want to deal with the situation, but he felt like he had to because Holly’s plane was circling the airport and running out of fuel.
Poor John and Holly just can’t seem to have a normal Christmas. If I were them, I think I’d stay home in bed with the covers pulled over my head instead of venturing away from home on Christmas Eve again. The fact that it was Christmas Eve was made clear without it being brought up a lot. A few Christmas songs were heard and decorations were shown around the terminal as well. The airport was packed with people because of the holiday and there were many planes scheduled to land as well which put a lot of people in danger. There was also a horrible snow storm hitting the area that added additional complications. The terrorists set up a mini airport control office in a church, where they take over the airports control systems and stop them from speaking to the pilots of the planes.
John McLean of course gets involved with the heist and takes over, to the airport police dismay. He knows what needs to be done, and he is determined to get the problem sorted so his wife and mother to his kids gets home safe and soundly.
But its not going to be so easy, the terrorists want a plane to be departed which holds General Espenoza, a big drugs smuggler, this is their only demand, but to do it, they shut off the runway lights and have 10 planes circling the airport for hours, running lower and lower on fuel.....
When the army get involved, McLean thinks everything is going to plan and thinks that finally they will get one over on the terrorists...thats until he notices the blue and red tape on the magazines of the guns...and notices the army were double crossing him all along.
The film comes to a finale when Mclean finally manages to beat them, just when they think they're away in the sky with their stolen plane, McLean open up the fuel release hatch, jumps from the plane, and sets the fuel alight, causing the plane to blow up spectacularly and of course, making a clear landing path for the desperate passenger jets in the sky above, one of course holding his wife Holly....!
Sorry this review is a little mismatch and confusing, much like the film itself!!!
Brucy is looking sexy as ever in the film, its fantastically shot, though some parts are a little unbelievable... a passenger plane (Windsor airlines) from London, has been circling for hours and is now running on just petrol fumes, yet when the terrorists manage to trick the pilots into thinking they were 200ft above land when infact they were 2 inches, the plane makes a MASSIVE explosion when in actual fact with the amount of fuel in the tanks, the plane would have probably just skidded, maybe a little fire, but the passengers would ahve escaped before any major damage happened!! but we can forgive that!!
If you watched the first Die Hard and loved it, then you'll love this one even more, its an amazing film!! again its got the undertones of humour! :-) And well who can complain about any film with Bruce Willis to perv at!!! :-p
Main Cast
John Amos - Major Grant William Atherton - Richard Thornburg Bonnie Bedelia - Holly McClane Dennis Franz - Captain Carmine Lorenzo Robert Patrick - O’Reilly Fred Dalton Thompson - Trudeau Reginald VelJohnson - Al Powell Bruce Willis - John McClane
Renny Harlan - Director
Die Hard 2: Die Harder is one of the better sequels and is worth watching, especially for fans of Die Hard. It was just as entertaining as the first movie.
Advantages: A worthy sequel to a great original movie. Disadvantages: How can the same s**t happen to the same guy ??
...television reporter from the first Die Hard movie. As the tension grows, he patches into the newsroom to give an "eyewitness report" on the unfolding events, causing panic on the ground.
As the story progresses, it becomes apparent that Colonel Stuart, Esperanza, the holding aircraft and, of course, John McClane are all on headings for a turbulent ride on the ground and in the air above Dulles.
This sequel to the original Die Hard movie was highly ... ...wants.
"Die Hard 2: Die Harder" was directed by Renny Harlin, after John McTiernan had to pull out due to prior commitments. Prior to this movie, Harlin had little experience as director, with "A Nightmare On Elm Street 4" his biggest movie. Fortunately, this film allowed him to show what he was capable of acheiving, and proved a huge success. Following this movie, he then went on to direct hits such as "The Long Kiss Goodnight", "Deep Blue Sea" ...
SRowlands 01.07.2005
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Definately a must see for action packed film lovers.
A great sequal with Bruce Willis at his Best.
Was an adrenerline Rush for me personally, when experiencing the view of objects blowing up, left, right and centre.
The film is great however, i believe that nothing can beat the first of its sequal. ...
colesey 26.01.2009
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Advantages: Great action scenes which keep you hooked right the way through Disadvantages: Re-watching it will expose some plot holes and ideas which are fantastical
...the eighties, "Die Hard 2: Die Harder" attempts to better the first movie in many ways. This time, events are not restricted to one building, but an entire airport and it's surroundings. The action in this movie is on a bigger scale than the first movie. It's bigger, better and louder.
Yet again, cop John McClane finds himself surrounded by proffesional terroists who have come to rescue a drug lord. The lengths they go to to do this are extreme ... ...And McClane is certainly going stop them.
It has some nice touches hinting back to scenes in the first film, and also has three characters from the first making an appearance (not forgetting McClane)
This film doesn't concern itself with plot, and is more about large scale shoot outs and immense action scenes carried out by some great actors. Bruce Willis is again great as the cop who saves the day.
The main villian this time around is less comical ...
daz524361 19.10.2007
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this is a absoloutely brilliant dvd a must for any die hard fan ! once again bruce willis stars as the thrilling nypd cop ...
midheart 22.12.2008
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Advantages: Great stunts, spectacular special effects and fantastic acting make this movie a must see Disadvantages: the bonuses on the dvd were a little disappointing
...fantastic in this sequal to Die Hard and I don't suppose anyone can replace him, as he is so amazing in these types of film. I found the movie to be full of action and suspense. In addition, I also found that the special effects and the stunts were pretty impressive. i believe that the storyline is very well thought out and excecuted superbly by all the actors involved in the film. Furthermore,. However, I felt that the bonuses were not as good as ... ...However, this comes a close second. I hope that you have found this review helpful when trying to decide whetherr or no to purchase this dvd. In my opinon, I would advise you to buy it, as everyone must own this dvd, along with the Die Hard, the first movie. ...
emilie2 24.04.2007
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Advantages: Two great films in one box set Disadvantages: Have to buy Die Hard 3 separately.
that DieHard3 was done by a different Studio and in the UK there was a bit of a problem with the distribution rights, so DieHard 3 was sold as an individual purchse and not with this box set. Shame. Since then the films have been sold in a multi pack without the extras.
It is also funny to see Robert Patrick of Terminator 2 in this as well.
If you can get the boxed set of two films do so, the third is available as a specialedition with the same flavour of extras and a different ending. If you cant you'll have to buy them individually and that may work out a bit more, but will still be worth it. With DieHard 4 currently in production interest in these DVD's will soon be raised again.
Oh by the way these are the unedited versions of the film, which became evident when watching the second film with the stabbing in the eye by Mac ...
Advantages: Tense, funny, fast paced, vast improvement on no2 Disadvantages: Abrupt ending, doesn't scale the dizzy heights of the first.
intact.
*****STOP PRESS*****
It's come to my attention in the last 1/2 hour that Fox is planning to release Special Collectors EditionDVD's of all three DieHard movies over the coming year, starting in May with a two-disc set of the original film with re-mastered anamorphic print, DTS sound, deleted scenes and all the trimmings!
Oh dear I'm starting to drool.... ...
Howiemon 11.02.2001 (12.04.2001)
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20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Deluxe Video Service - Fox
Release date
06/03/2006, 03/05/2004
No of Discs
2
Catalogue No
2306701034, 23067 DVD
Barcode
5039036026468, 5039036013185
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Aspect Ratio
2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
DVD Description
A band of commandos led by a murderous officer seize an international airport. Their aim is to rescue a drug baron from justice. Detective McClane finds himself having to battle tough anti-terrorists squads, and a deadly snowstorm to break the grip of the terrorists who have control of the plane that is carrying his wife...
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