Die Hard 2 (1990)

Director:

Renny Harlin

Writers (WGA):

Walter Wager (novel)
Steven E. de Souza (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

4 julio 1990 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Frase comercial:

Die Harder.

Plot:

John McClane is forced to battle mercenaries who seize control of an airport's communications and threaten to cause plane crashes if their demands are not met.

Plot Keywords:

Airplane Runway | One Night | No Opening Credits | Ex Soldier | Stabbed In The Eye

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Die Harder--And More Violently

US TV Schedule:

Wed. July 30

11:35 PM

MAX

Cast

Bruce Willis	...	John McClane
Bonnie Bedelia	...	Holly McClane
William Atherton	...	Richard Thornburg
William Sadler	...	Col. Stuart
Reginald VelJohnson	...	Sgt. Al Powell
Franco Nero	...	Gen. Ramon Esperanza
John Amos	...	Maj. Grant
Dennis Franz	...	Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
Art Evans	...	Leslie Barnes
Fred Dalton Thompson	...	Trudeau
Tom Bower	...	Marvin
Sheila McCarthy	...	Samantha 'Sam' Coleman
Don Harvey	...	Garber
Tony Ganios	...	Baker
Peter Nelson	...	Thompson

También conocida como:

Die Hard 2: Die Harder (Philippines: English title) (UK) (promotional title) (USA) (video box title)
Duro de matar 2 (Argentina) [es]
Jungla 2: Alerta roja, La (Spain) [es]

Duración:

124 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English | Español

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby SR (35 mm prints) | 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)

Clasificación:

Iceland:16 | Peru:14 | Brazil:14 | Finland:K-15 (DVD version) | Malaysia:18SG | UK:15 (video rating) (1991) | Philippines:R-18 | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Germany:16 (cut) (video premiere) | Australia:M | Canada:18A | Finland:K-16 | France:U | Germany:16 (re-rating) | Hong Kong:IIB | Ireland:15 | Italy:VM14 | Japan:PG-12 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Singapore:M18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (original rating) (cut) | UK:15 (video rating) (cut) (1990) | UK:18 (video rating) (uncut) (1992) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Alpena, Michigan, USA

Company:

Gordon Company

Trivialidades:

It was Renny Harlin's idea that William Sadler, the film's main villain be introduced naked doing martial arts exercises during the film's opening sequence. He would later say that it was "an effective, but unusual way to introduce a character".

Goofs:

Continuity: Thornberg occasionally talks into the wrong end of the skyphone in the toilet.

Quotes:

John McClane: What do you say, Marv?
Marvin: I'll be damned if I'm gonna clean up this mess.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Confession (2005)

Soundtrack:

OLD CAPE COD

Die Harder--And More Violently

The 1988 action thriller DIE HARD was such a huge critical, commercial, and artistic success that it was probably inevitable, given Hollywood's mentality that there is never too much of a good thing, that a sequel would follow. The result, thus, is DIE HARD 2.

Bruce Willis returns as John McClane, who on this Christmas Eve is at Dulles International Airport in Washington awaiting the arrival of his wife (Bonnie Bedelia) from Los Angeles. Flights, however, are being delayed all across the board into D.C. by one of the biggest blizzards on record. And when Willis spots Army mercenaries in sensitive areas of the airport where nobody is supposed to go, his cop instincts take hold. As it turns out, these mercenaries are led by a hard-nosed right-wing colonel (William Sadler) whose aim is to snatch a known Latin-American drug dealer (Franco Nero) from the hands of U.S. justice agents. Their reason, as Sadler puts it, is because he had "the guts to stand up against Communist aggression." To prove his point, Sadler and his minions shut the entire airport down, putting all those planes in the snowbound skies over the nation's capital in mortal peril, until Nero's military plane arrives. The result is a battle in more ways than one, as Willis must not only tangle with Sadler's gang, but also with an incompetent airport cop (Dennis Franz) who thinks Willis is a lunatic.

Very solid acting from Willis, as well as Fred Dalton Thompson and Art Evans, who portray the two sympathetic airport officials, helps DIE HARD 2 remain leagues ahead of the majority of testosterone-laden action flicks. But many of the same flaws that were in DIE HARD 1 creep up here again. To paint the airport cops as incompetent buffoons just so that Willis can be the hero of the piece is grossly inaccurate and offensive. Even the media, in the guise of the ultra-obnoxious Dick Thornberg (William Atherton), gets slammed, and not in a very fair or accurate fashion. And the violence and language in DIE HARD 2 are far more pervasive than the original, with at least two scenes (the icepick to the eye; and Sadler's ex-commander [John Amos] getting sucked into the engine of the getaway 747 at the end) approaching extreme in terms of bloodshed, and the use of the 'F' word approaching SCARFACE in terms of occasions when it is used.

Still, there is plenty of suspense and tension to be had here, with the direction of Renny Harlin evincing, at times, the feel of a Spielberg or Peckinpah at their edge-of-the-seat best. Michael Kamen's score, which interpolates Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia" at the end, is also a plus.

The verdict is that DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER is not an unflawed film, but one can certainly do much worse.