Saturday, 29 June 2013

Die Harder

Die Hard 2 (1990)

Directed by Renny Harlin this sequel stars Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler and Art Evans. It's another bad festive season for John McClane as he tries to pick up his wife from the airport during a terrorist attack.

After the success of the first film a sequel was a no brainer and this film does a good job of staying faithful to the characters without trying to just recreate the events of the previous film. The story is inspired by the novel “58 minutes” and some of the characters by real events involving CIA meddling in South America, all of which provides a decent basis for the film. What the film does best is go above and beyond the original with some excellent action sequences that really make the best use of the airport setting.


4/5

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