Rotten
If your idea of a good time is watching a lot of stupid, unpleasant people insult and brutalize one another, this is right up your alley.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Renny Harlin Director
- Paul Abascal Director
- Bruce Willis as John McClane
- Bonnie Bedelia as Holly McClane
- William Sadler as Colonel Stuart
- Franco Nero as Genera Ramon Esperanza
- John Amos as Major Grant
- Dennis Franz as Captain Carmine Lorenzo
- William Atherton as Richard Thornberg
- Art Evans Cast
- Fred Thompson Cast
- Tom Bower Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
69%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Though the follow-up is bigger, it's not really better. The surprise is missing.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
This is terrific entertainment.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
It's rambunctiously entertaining, a loop-de-loopy bumper car ride through a firecracker sky, all bright lights, sonic booms and impossible heroics.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Rotten
A second-rate one-upping.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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