Replacing terrorists in a nearly deserted office complex for terrorists in an airport in the middle of the holidays does wonders for the scale of the film, but sticking Bruce Willis' every-cop into the middle of such grandiose spectacle only seems to drive home just how perfectly restrained the first film was. Willis is just as strong as before, but the situation he's in is just too much to swallow. Worse still is how it tries to ape the first's sense of place and improvised geography. Yet despite that, there's still a bit of charm to be had. There's nothing wrong with the script itself, and the shootouts are both plentiful and exciting. Even the drama holds together fairly well. It's just that when you stick such an affable everyman in the middle of a far bigger slice of impossible than before, things fall out of balance.
7 out of 10.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Die Hard 2 (1990)
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Not as good as the first Indeed, I would have even rate this a 6 out of 10. Bad guy was wasn't as good and the storyline was a bit weaker than the first, but overall Bruce Willis was still awesome.
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