Anyways, Die Hard 2 brings back everyone's ass-kicking, one line spewing, grizzled detective John McClane. Not content to stumble into one terrorist plot in the first film, McClane decides to discover another one just in time for the holidays, again. Last time it was in L.A. For some reason this time it's in D.C. No one really knows why, especially since McClane is a New York cop. I'm pretty sure it is because his wife is super annoying and makes him travel all around.
So McClane is again at the wrong place at the wrong time (FOR THE BAD GUYS) waiting in Dulles international airport for his wife's plane to land. And again, Christmas is fast approaching. What the airport doesn't know is that a group of former U.S. soldiers (who are very Aryan looking and sounding) are planning on shutting down the airport in order to smuggle out some famous dictator/drug dealer in exchange for living on a beach for the rest of their lives. They plan to do this by killing all electronics at the airport in a snowstorm forcing all incoming plans to circle until they will eventually crash land. John McClane declares this to be bullshit and runs off gun in hand to shoot everyone in the face.
Now Die Hard was kind of believable. As in the plot could totally happen. The punishment that McClane goes through would kill any lesser man but the overall story is sound. Die Hard 2 tries to make the audience think that if Dulles doesn't have lights than every plane coming in there is doomed. Even thought Ronald Reagan Int. Airport is right down the road. And so is Baltimore. And Philadelphia. And technically New York. Plot believability is effectively suspended at that point.
But it doesn't matter because you came to see some action! And there is action. So much action. It is fantastic, with lots of cheesy one liners and of course Bruce Willis saying Yippykayay mother ------. Another solid entry into probably the best action series ever.
3.5 out of 4 stars
-Christopher O'Connell
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