Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Thriller, Action

Bruce Willis	John McClane
William Atherton	Richard Thornburg
Bonnie Bedelia	Holly McClane
Art Evans	Leslie Barnes
Dennis Franz	Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
John Amos	Maj. Grant
Franco Nero	Gen. Ramon Esperanza
William Sadler	Col. Stuart
Reginald VelJohnson	Sgt. Al Powell
Tom Bower	Marvin

Director	Renny Harlin
Producer	Joel Silver; Charles Gordon; Lawrence Gordon
Writer	Walter Wager; Steven E. de Souza; Doug Richardson; Steven E. deSouza
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Musician	Michael Kamen

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