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Name: Die Hard 2
Director: Renny Harlin
Genre: action, thriller
Released: 1990
Duration: 2 h 4 min
Rating: 7.2

Die Hard 2 has an iRankMovies score of 69.6/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Die Hard 2 (1990)

Die harder.

Release:1990

Runtime:2h 4m

Country:United States

Director:Renny Harlin

Language:English

Genre

ActionThriller

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Keywords

HelicopterAirportBased On Novel Or BookAmbushCopSequelSnowShootout

iRank70

Die Hard 2 rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.2/10· 406K votes

Rotten Tomatoes68%

Metacritic67%

TMDb6.972/10· 6K votes

With 68% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.2/10 on IMDb and 67/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About Die Hard 2

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

Cast of Die Hard 2

Bruce Willis
as John McClane
Bonnie Bedelia
as Holly McClane
William Sadler
as Stuart
John Amos
as Major Grant
Franco Nero
as General Ramon Esperanza
William Atherton
as Richard Thornberg
Dennis Franz
as Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
Art Evans
as Leslie Barnes
Fred Thompson
as Trudeau
Tom Bower
as Marvin
Sheila McCarthy
as Samantha 'Sam' Coleman
Don Harvey
as Garber

Die Hard 2 facts

Budget: $70M
Box office: $240M
Collection: Die Hard Collection

Our take on Die Hard 2

A year after Los Angeles, John McClane finds himself once again the wrong man in the wrong place, this time snowbound at Washington's Dulles airport on Christmas Eve when terrorists seize the air-traffic system to spring a captured drug-running general. Renny Harlin scales the original's cat-and-mouse formula up to airport size, swapping a single tower for runways, control rooms and circling planes while McClane battles bureaucrats as much as gunmen. It delivers exactly what its predecessor's fans want: a wisecracking everyman hero, escalating set pieces and a wintry holiday backdrop. Best taken as an unpretentious, bigger-and-louder action sequel that trades intimacy for spectacle without apology.

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Airport setting expands action franchise scope beyond original confined space
•Renny Harlin delivers explosive action sequences with impressive technical execution
•Sequel escalates stakes with hostage scenario adding dramatic tension