The year started off with a movie starring Bruce Willis, so it might as well end with one, and since I have already memed on the fact that the first Die Hard can be considered a ‘Christmas movie’, I am here to argue the same thing about Die Hard 2. It was directed by Renny Harlin (a different director than the first entry in the series) back in 1990 which also means that 2025 marks its 35th anniversary.
Die Hard 2, starring Bruce Willis and William Sadler, features John McClane’s return to once again be a one-man army to stop yet another group of terrorists, only this time they are a group of rogue military agents that turned radicals and the action takes place in an airport. McClane is still the character with the fast quips that we adored in the first movie, although admittedly there are less moments that fell genuine like in the first one. Don’t get me wrong, it is still a good action flick to take the mind off of things, but it just pales in comparison to its antecedent. I will however not share my thoughts on how the IP was used and how it eventually became a mere cash-grab.
On the festive side of things, I will say that there are various Christmas lights and decorations throughout the movie, there are at least several instances when someone says ‘Merry Christmas’ and the end credits song is Dean Martin’s Let it Snow. In other words, Christmas movie confirmed. Right? Right? Right.
PS: remember kids, it is not officially Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from Nakatomi Plaza.
I would give this movie a 6 out of 10 ‘progress piqued with frozen pizza’.
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