Die Hard 2 DVD

Advantages: Big action, big-talking, big.... Bruce Willis
Disadvantages: Hammy, cheesy, could still do with a few more explosions

Die Hard 2: Die Harder follows on a few years after the events of the first film, when John McClane managed to get out of the Nakatomi plaza alive, with his wife in tow. This time round, husband and wife are getting along better (surprising what a near-death experience can do for you), and John is feeling carefully optimistic about everything. This Christmas, his wife is coming to him, and he goes to the airport to meet her. And then.. well, another ...
...who can stop it! Die Hard 2 takes the cheesiness to a whole new level, in part probably because Renny Harlin is directing, a man who is now well known for making big-cheese numbers such as Cliffhanger and Deep Blue Sea. And while the film is still highly enjoyable, there seems to be something missing from the whole enterprise. Bruce Willis returns as McClane, and continues to flesh out his character. He has to deal with a lot in this film, including ... Read review

Advantages: Fast-paced, spectacular, fairly enjoyable if your in the mood
Disadvantages: Dodgy acting, weak script, little credibility and zero tension

...to be as good as Die Hard, it didn't have to be. Thanks to the success of the original, Die Hard 2 had a ready made audience that was virtually guaranteed to turn up for a second installment. All Fox had to do was to get the picture made and released before the interest wore off and they would almost certainly have a huge hit on their hands. In the space of under 2 years, Fox had done just that. Walter Wagers novel "58 minutes" was hastily adapted ...
...up. But not for Die Hard 2. Although this was their next film to be released, they first collaborated on "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane" which was a bizarre exercise indeed and starred Andrew Dice Clay (who he?..ed) as a "Rock n Roll Detective". This too was a crap film and on it's eventual release it became clear why there had been a year long delay. Not surprisingly, it sank without trace. Despite this though, Silver still had confidence in ... Read review

Advantages: Great action piece
Disadvantages: Rehack of the first film?

Die Hard 2? Remake of the original. Well that was easy, what's next? What's that - you want more? Grrrrr...well...alright. Waiting to meet his wife at Washington's Dulles airport, Detective John McClane notices something pretty weird going on. Poking his nose into things that he shouldn't McClane discovers a plot to shut the airport down in the middle of the Christmas holiday rush. Led by disgraced soldier Colonel Stuart, a highly trained team of ...
...winning formula. Does that make Die Hard 2 a bad film? How does that incorrect noise from Family Fortunes go? That the first film was such a fabulous hit and that the second sticks closely to the style put in place, means that we have certain expectations - and this film meets and exceeds them almost constantly. Bringing McClane and his 'problems' back underpins the whole film. Like we've been let in a delicious secret, we just know that as soon ... Read review

Advantages: Bruce Willis, Bruce Willis, yep, Bruce Willis!
Disadvantages: a few plot holes

...standards set by the first Die Hard film. Based on Walter Wager’s novel ’58 minutes’ (something I didn’t know, another book I shall be purchasing soon!) the script isn’t all that bad either, but did you know that it cost $60 million to make – wow! I could have knocked something together with me and Bruce in for a lot less (although it wouldn’t have sold that well ;+) hehehe). The music is Ok (ie. cue corny ...
...so nothing radical happens in Die Hard 2, but it doesn’t stray from the traditions of the action packed genre. And of course once more, McClane seems the only possible man for the job. This movie in analysis, is a worthwhile action film, but it’s not as ‘new’ as the first Die Hard, nevertheless, whoever enjoyed the first will undoubtedly enjoy the second, and whoever enjoys Bruce Willis, will definitely get a kick out of Die ... Read review

Advantages: Entertaining, lots of good action
Disadvantages: not as "funny" as the first film

...its compared too much to Die Hard. Die Hard is not any normal film, its probably the best action film ever. So Die Hard 2: Die Harder had alot to live up to, and the plot is fairly similar, its just an airport in Washington instead of a big building in Los Angeles. Both are set on Christmas Eve, and John McClane (Bruce Willis), wonders aloud exactly the same thing could happen to him twice. Just like a normal Christmas he says, "crawling around ...
...clever ending, where as in Die Hard the terrorists are killed one by one, here they are all taken out at once. It is one of a few differences in a similar film. Die Hard 2 doesn't have the same battle of wits as there is in the first film between McClane and Hans Gruber, but its still entertaining, and the action is as good as you would expect, as is Willis. It is put on the shade by Die Hard, but its still got pace and suspense, and is a decent ... Read review