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.
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
talisencrw
Great fun re-watching this after checking out the original for the first time. One of the very best filmic franchises out there, to be sure....
GenerationofSwine
I was 10 in 1990, I loved Die Hard, and I hated Die Hard 2. Now I'm 40 and I am rewatching this and.... compared to movies today it is pretty good. If this was made in 2020 it would be a 10 out of 10 star smash blockbusting hit that all of America raves about except the "everything is political a...
CinemaSerf
If anyone were ever to need to write a training manual for terrorists that demonstrated how to maximise the chaos and destruction at a facility; then they could do a great deal worse than engage the services of Bruce Willis. In this cracking action adventure film, he is "Lt. John McClane" who finds ...
RalphRahal
Die Hard 2 (1990) is a solid action movie that delivers high-energy sequences and a familiar setup, but it lacks the magic that made the first one a classic. The plot follows a similar structure, with John McClane once again caught in a high-stakes situation, but the tension does not feel as sharp t...