Bruce Willis (“The Fifth Element”, “Hudson Hawk”) returns to his signature role of John McClane in the action-packed sequel “Die Hard 2: Die Harder”. The title of the film appears to have very little effort gone into it but really it gets you fired up for some serious terrorist busting.

It’s the Christmas holidays again and police officer John McClane is in Washington’s airport as he waits for his wife to arrive. The world’s biggest drug dealer named General Esperanza (Franco Nero “Cars 2”) is being extradited and will arrive shortly so a group of terrorists lead by Colonel Stuart (William Sadler “The Green Mile”) have taken complete control of the airport, this means no plane can land there resulting in a bunch of them circling the airport whilst low on fuel. John McClane is the only one with enough sense to take them down.

John McClane is a great action hero. He’s spurts out bad language like no tomorrow, he disobeys orders and he’s reckless but he’s also good at heart and can get the job done. Lightning must strike twice with McClane as he must do the same thing as before, fight terrorists around the holidays; even he can’t believe it. The bad guys aren’t too memorable but they’re still relatively good. One character that makes me giggle a bit is a reporter named Richard Thornburg (William Atherton “Die Hard”, “Ghostbusters”) but on the downside, he does drag the film a little.

The action scenes are really good as we see fights on the wings of planes, snowmobile chases and lots of other stuff. “Die Hard 2” gets the explosive and action-packed side right but unfortunately it seems to drag a little so the action loses some of its power as it is spaced out a little too much. It’s worth watching but it’s nothing too amazing.