In this sequel to the classic action movie, renegade commandos seize a major international airport to rescue a drug lord from justice. Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis), there to meet his wife, must battle incompetent airport security, hard-headed, gung-ho anti-terrorist squads and a deadly winter snowstorm to break the terrorist's grip before his wife's plane runs out of fuel. Based on the novel "58 Minutes" by Walter Wager.
An action-packed sequel to the 1989 film "Die Hard."
While former New York City cop John McClane, now a member of the Los Angeles Police Department, waits to pick up his wife in DC's Dulles Airport, gunmen suddenly commandeer the building. They're intent on rescuing a drug-dealing foreign despot who's being brought to the US to stand trial.
And once again McClane finds himself enmeshed in a terrorist plot that only he can prevent...
Titles and Opticals by Pacific Title.
Budget estimate $62 million; Began shooting November 28, 1989; Completed shooting April 6, 1990; Released in USA July 4, 1990.
Shot on location in Los Angeles, California, Alpena and Kinross, Michigan, in Panavision and DeLuxe color.
Working title for the film was "Die Hard II: Taking of Los Angeles International."
Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Censors.
Copyright 1990 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
UMD Features:
Note: This release is in the UMD format for Sony PSP players only.
Keep Case
Widescreen - 1.78
Audio:
Dolby Digital 2.0 - English, Spanish, French
Subtitles - English, Spanish - Optional
Director of Photography
Oliver Wood: Cinematographer
Production Designer
John Vallone: Production Designer, COMMANDO (1985)
Costume Designer
Marilyn Vance: Costume Designer, FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (1982)
Review 1:
"...Impressively made..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.37 08/09/1990
Review 2:
"...Outrageous ambition, high-tech sophistication and sheer unbridled firepower....The heart and soul of the new film is Bruce Willis..."
Source: New York Times
p.C11 07/03/1990
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