Die Hard 2 (2001, DVD)

After Die Hard became a huge hit, it wasn't surprising that a sequel was made in 1990. Die Hard 2: Die Harder was just as entertaining as the first movie. John McClane was waiting at the Dulles airport to pick up Holly on Christmas Eve. John was already in Washington, D.C. with their kids to spend the holiday with Holly s parents. Unfortunately John wasn t going to have a peaceful holiday. Colonel Stuart was leading a team of mercenaries and they took over the airport, cutting off certain systems so that the control tower couldn t talk to the planes in the air. The planes were in holding...

Usually when a movie starts kicking out sequels, it tends to take away something from the original film in a series. But, then there are other times where the sequels are able to continue the original story, and they bring something new to a set of films. With the Die Hard franchise, I have found the latter to be true, as we are able to see the main character put into new and different situations. With the Die Hard series, we are actually able to enjoy the development of a particular character, while still being able to see the same qualities that makes him great. In this instance, we have...

I really enjoyed Die Hard and Die Hard 2: Die Harder and they are two of my favorite action movies. Since both of those movies were so popular and successful, it wasn't surprising that a third movie, Die Hard With a Vengeance, was made in 1995. A bomb went off in a department store in New York City. The bomber, Simon, called the police and demanded John McClane. Simon wanted to play a game with John and more bombs would go off around the city if John didn t participate. Zeus, a store owner in Harlem, got pulled into the situation when he tried to intervene in a situation that Simon had set up.

With the success of John McTiernan's 1988 action thriller Die Hard, moviegoers were literally overwhelmed with explosion-and-mayhem laden tales of good-guy-vs.-bunch-of-clever-and-well-armed villains-in-an-enclosed-space films. Some, like Andrew Davis' Under Siege (one of the few movies starring Steven Seagal that I'll sit through) were actually good. Most of them got sillier and sillier as producers and screenwriters struggled with the familiar Hollywood question: How can we top/rip off Die Hard? (In the text commentary to McTiernan's Die Hard, one of the producers reveals that in one studio.