One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.
Practical Effects
Real snowmobile chases and airport sets before CGI ruined everything.
Stunts
Bruce Willis running barefoot on broken glass again, because why not.
Director
Renny Harlin
Bruce Willis
John McClane
Bonnie Bedelia
Holly McClane
William Sadler
Stuart
John Amos
Major Grant
Franco Nero
General Ramon Esperanza
William Atherton
Richard Thornberg
Dennis Franz
Capt. Carmine Lorenzo
Art Evans
Leslie Barnes
Fred Thompson
Trudeau
Tom Bower
Marvin
Sheila McCarthy
Samantha 'Sam' Coleman
Don Harvey
Garber
Reginald VelJohnson
Sgt. Al Powell
Tony Ganios
Baker
Peter Nelson
Thompson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Renny Harlin had only five weeks to prep after original director left. The snowstorm was real—production chased actual blizzards across North America.
The fictional 'Val Verde' dictatorship invented for this film became a running joke in 90s action cinema, referenced in multiple other movies.
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