Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Same John McClane

Starring: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Franco Nero, William Sadler, John Amos, Dennis Franz, Art Evans, Fred Thompson, Tom Bower, Sheila McCarthy, Don Harvey, Robert Patrick, John Leguizamo

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ - good

"Ouch. When you get those feelings, insurance companies start to go bankrupt." - Al Powell when he hears that John McClane "has a feeling"

Why watch this? It's hard for any sequel to match its predecessor. This one tries, maybe a little too hard.

Plot Summary: Two years after the events in Die Hard, NYC police officer, John McClane, is back on the East Coast. It's a wintry Christmas Eve, and he's at Dulles Airport, waiting on his wife's flight to arrive. Coincidentally, a corrupt military General's plane is also landing so he can be extradited for trafficking drugs. You can guess where all this is going. McClane gets wise to a plot to bust out the General, and tells airport personnel. Of course, nobody will listen to him. So, like the bull-necked fella he is, it's time to take down the bad guys all by his lonesome.

Dad's Preview:  This film suffers from a need to "go bigger", which is impossible when trying to outdo perhaps the greatest action film of all time. The results are stunts that are completely unbelievable, too many unnecessary f-words from the film's hero, and contrived characters inserted just to make our hero's life even harder. That said, it is always great to see Mr. Willis portray the brave, sassy, no-nonsense cop, who is just trying to save his wife the day before Christmas. Let the explosions begin!

Gordon Company, Silver Pictures; 20th Century Fox