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On a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, a team of terrorists has seized a major international airport, and now holds thousands of travelers hostage. The terrorists, a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer (William Sadler), have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency except one: John McClane (Bruce Willis), an off-duty cop gripped by a feeling of deadly deja vu. Willis returns as the heroic cop who battles not only terrorists, but also an incompetent airport police chief (Dennis Franz), the hard-headed commander (John Amos) of the Army's terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. His wife (Bonnie Bedella) is trapped on one of the planes circling somewhere overhead, desperately low on fuel. The runways are littered with death and destruction, and McClane is in a race against time. It's all-out war, a heart-stopping, jet-propelled journey through excitement and terror. Fasten your seatbelts!
"It's the best of the blockbusters." Joel Siegel, Good Morning America
"The action is spectacular." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"...zooms along like a roller coaster tanked with jet fuel." Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Editor's Note
In this sequel to the classic action movie, renegade commandos seize a major international airport to rescue a drug lord from justice. Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis), there to meet his wife, must battle incompetent airport security, hard-headed, gung-ho anti-terrorist squads and a deadly winter snowstorm to break the terrorist's grip before his wife's plane runs out of fuel. Based on the novel "58 Minutes" by Walter Wager.
Plot Summary
An action-packed sequel to the 1989 film "Die Hard."| While former New York City cop John McClane, now a member of the Los Angeles Police Department, waits to pick up his wife in DC's Dulles Airport, gunmen suddenly commandeer the building. They're intent on rescuing a drug-dealing foreign despot who's being brought to the US to stand trial.| And once again McClane finds himself enmeshed in a terrorist plot that only he can prevent...
| Features | Audio: English 5.1 DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital Stereo | | Dubbed: French | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Special Gift Pack Wrap | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Die Hard 2: Die Harder - DVD Review By: Brian Holcomb - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 6/23/2007 8:47 AM | | Die Hard 2 or as I clearly remember it, Die Harder is no match for the original. It's not even a match for the third part in the series. But it's still an effective actioner from an era where every other film was described as "Die Hard in a ----" fill in the blank. This could be seen as one of them, "Die Hard in an Airport" and for all of its flaws it still delivers a well crafted action film with the same kind of irreverent tone as the original. ...read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 10/16/2007 |
| Running Time: 131 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1990 | | Catalog ID: 2237325 | | UPC: 00024543373254 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Impressively made..." 08/09/1990 p.37New York Times
"...Outrageous ambition, high-tech sophistication and sheer unbridled firepower....The heart and soul of the new film is Bruce Willis..." 07/03/1990 p.C11 Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
...Die Hard 2 is as unlikely as the Bond pictures, and as much fun... this is an especially well-crafted picture. It tells a story we can identify with, it has a lot of interesting supporting characters, it handles the action sequences with calm precision, and it has a couple of scenes that are worth writing home about... This is terrific entertainment. - Roger Ebert
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