The problem with IMDb these days is that too many people use it, thus mediocre populist special effects extravaganzas like this can achieve a score of 7.8.
The original Die Hard was a great movie. Die Hard 2 was a remake of the first film, albeit even more far fetched. By the third installment they had lost the plot altogether, and this one is virtually incoherent.
There is NOTHING in the way of suspense, and the action is not so much unbelievable as blatantly impossible. For instance:
***SPOILERS***
None of the hackers ever once pick up a mouse. Yet their screens are covered by Windows. Clearly these hackers have mastered the Windows key strokes down pat. If you thought the hacking presented in Swordfish was bad then this is even worse. When will Hollywood realise that there's nothing cinematic in hacking, even if you speed up the process by 1,000,000%?
Some of the hackers were also martial arts experts and extremely fit people.
When McLane gets thrown out of the 4th floor window, bounces down various pieces of steel pipework without breaking any ribs, then jumps into and hotwires a 4x4, drives it up 4 levels car park, then through a glass wall into their power stations main server room... did it never occur to anyone that it would be really stupid to have a server room that controls the national grid of the eastern seaboard of the US separated from it's car park by only a glass partition?
And how about the scene where a state of the art jet fighter is unable to hit his 18 wheel truck with a missile, yup McLane's reflexes are so highly developed he can dodge missiles in a truck. Then when the plane shoots down the flyover the truck is driving on, McLane manages to jump 60ft from the truck onto the roof of the plane, while the pilot EJECTS, then hangs onto the plane while it enters a spin, before finalling leaping 100ft onto another section of flyover, sliding 300ft down it at an angle of 80 degrees, only to walk way from the whole incident.
Then there's the scene where they escape fire from a heavy machine gun by hiding beind a plasterboard partition. In real life even then people 2 buildings away could be shot by that thing... Then when the 2 pounds of C4 goes off it only takes out one side of the plasterboard partition (remember the original Die Hard where a similar quantity of explosive caused structural damage to a 40 story skyscraper???
I new as soon as the machine gun fire kicked in only 90 seconds into the movie that it was going to be pants and it was.
Makes Rambo 2 look like Bad Day at Black Rock.
AVOID!
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