Die Hard 2: Die Harder (R)
John McClane spreads vigilante Christmas cheer.
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- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
- Directed By: Renny Harlin
- Cast: Bonnie Bedelia, Bruce Willis, William Atherton
- Running Time: 124 minutes
- Release Date: 07/02/1990
- Video/DVD Release Date: 03/09/1999
- Genre: Action/adventure
- MPAA Rating: R
- MPAA Explanation: Restricted
Parents need to know
Families can talk about issues regarding the media, the legal system, and national security. How does the film comment on the media, through its presentation of Thornburg and Coleman? How does each character represent the responsibilities of members of the media? The movie presents a complicated relationship between the military and the police. Both John and the head commando Colonel Stewart make choices that deviate from their actual job descriptions. What is the difference between the two? What makes one right and one wrong?
Message
Social Behavior:
The film includes extremely violent individuals, both on the sides of good and evil. It presents a very complex image of government, police, and civilians (traitors, incompetents, and vigilantes). All engage in excessive violence, but the film does not really interrogate the type of violence used by the film's hero. His role as savior for the innocent rationalizes his killings in the world of the film.
Consumerism:
Twinkies.
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:
Violence
Murder of the innocent, lots of gunplay, freak accidents involving machinery, explosions, human stampedes, graphic executions of members of the police force, knife fight and graphic stabbing, throat slitting, dismembering, plane explosion, premeditated airplane crash (and death of all of its passengers
Sex
Brief (non-sexualized) male nudity.
Language
Repeated use of the f-word, frequent swearing out of anger and frustration.
Common Sense says
What's the story?
Reviewed by Kelly Kessler
Is it any good?
Families may also want to consider that the main conflict of this film engages with the topics of terrorism and airports. In a post-9/11 America, kids may be particularly sensitive about any hostile combination of these two topics.
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Parents and kids say
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not as good as the first (or 4th) but still good
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not as good as the first (or 4th) but still good
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