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Die Hard 2: Willis and gang bigger and better than ever
By Brian Bloch
Emerald Assoc .ite f ditor
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()m r again |ohn Mi < ’1.11u•
| linn r Willis) hulls himself in
the'wrong plait' at III** wrong
lime Hut this linn* he's in
Washington I)H ’s major intei
national airport lining liallh*
ss illi a 1 11 r 111 pI special fort es
unit that ss ill stop at nothing to
get ssh.it it svants
Header! In <iol Stuart (\\ il
11,1111 Sadler), the unit seizes
i onlrol ot the airport's 1 oinpu
tei guidance i.ontrols. 1 oininii
nil ations and landing opera
turns from a remote lor ation
The tower, unable to land
planes gross ing desperatels loss
on fuel is at the 1 omplete liter
1 s ol the tanat 11 al unit
Mi ( lane whose ss ite tlolls
(Honnie lkidelia) is on one of
the planes i iri ling user the air
Imirt must com ini i> tin* skepti
t al airport security of the ter
rorists' professionalism while
often stnglehandedly attempt
mg to save the lives of Ills \\ lie
and the hundreds of passengers
walling a hi >ve
U ith money as the motivator
the terrorist unit is try ing to in
ten ept a plane i allying (idler
al Ramon 1 speranza | franco
Nero), a forme! l atin Amerii ,iii
military officer being extradited
to the Tinted States for drug
tiallic Ling
The special I... unit
threatens to Ldl the passengers
by sending them plunging into
the runway il its demands
aren’t met Bee ause of the snow
and wind the planes must rely
lot,illy on the tower's guidance
to land With control of the
toysei. the unit c an alter inipor
taut navigational coordinates
sue h as sea level on the instru
incuts of the blinded planes
Mi ( dalle s I. A poll! e de
partmenl buddy Al I’oyvell
(Reginald Vellohnson) is line L
from the first mm ie. as is the
smut hounding l\ newsman
DuL fhornherg (William Ath
erton) |ohn Amos ((umi/ig to
Ament a | play s ( dipt (.rant
head of the ai my unit sent in to
help and Dennis Franz (Hill
Street Blues) is featured as the
< 4>ur1»"*\ photo
Brui t' H illis l.ikrS on .1 wholv n«*M b.ih h ol Imtl ,uu\s in Die Hard 2.
disiielieving captain of the air
pur! pul a i'
I hr script. ImmmI on Walter
W agner s novel <H \linulrs is
last pared, intriguing anil load
eil with ai tKin I he airport set
tmg lends itself c\r optionally
well to this kind ul ai tion film
tai more su than the skyscraper
featured in l)ir Ilard
I lirei tor Kenny I lari in and
producers l.awrence (airdun
joel Silver and ( h.tries Gordon
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\\ hen N!( (llane leaps onto mm
ing planes, dodges bullets and
most definiteU dies harder
t hen ever before.
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