It's almost pointless to write something up about this film. Die Hard made a lot of money for 20th Century Fox so of course they were going to make a sequel and this film showed up 2 years later. Most of the original cast is back, Bruce Willis as police officer John McClane or in this case they should have probably called him Superman since he defies the abilities of scores of terrorists to kill him.
Bonnie Bedelia is also back as McCane's wife in another thankless nothing part. William Atherton is the jerk reporter, Dick Thornburg. Reginald VelJohnson is McCane's cop friend Sergeant Al Powell in what is essentially a cameo part. The chief bad guys are Italian actor Franco Nero playing a South American General who is also a major drug dealer and William Sadler as a former army officer who is now a mercenary working to free Nero. Sadler works out in the nude but since this is a mainstream film no frontal nudity allowed. There just aren't any great bad guy leaders in this film. Alan Richardson from the first Die Hard film is sorely missed.
Die Hard 2 is essentially the same movie (duh) as the first one. All of the major action scenes from the first film have been carefully studied and reproduced in this sequel. Willis is attacked by a lot of bad guys with machine guns and amazingly survives. In fact they could probably have named this film "Machine Gun Porn."
The film is well made, the special effects and the overall production are at a high standard. Renny Hardlin the director does a reasonable job putting this film together. The film is in that category, decent time killer. Die Hard 2 made lots of money as well.
Written by Steven E. de Souza and Doug Richardson. The running time is 124.
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