Word: mclane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Diehard 2 picks up one year after the end of the original movie. Bruce Willis again slips effortlessly into the guns-and-guts tradition as John McLane, an off-duty Los Angeles cop (formerly from New York) who just wants to be left alone with his family...
...Christmastime, and McLane is meeting his wife at Dulles Airport in Washington. Before the plane lands, however, terrorists take control of the airport and threaten to kill a lot of people if the authorities don't help a shady Latin American general--who, of course, bears no resemblence to former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega--escape extradition and trial...
...movie maintains a sense of continuity with the past, borrowing lines from Diehard repeated in Diehard 2 at appropriate and clever moments, and the movie is not afraid to acknowledge its slightly recycled existence. McLane, in a metaphysical moment, exclaims, "I can't believe this is happening to me twice...
...then there is the constancy of the big finish. Naturally, McLane unravels the plot kills the bad guys and saves thousands of innocent holiday travelers. Hate to ruin the ending, but really, what else can you expect from a movie like this...
Skillful stage designs and clever direction enhance the production. Derek McLane's set, painted the green of The Captain's uniform, provides a fitting backdrop for the war of the sexes. Crossed swords over every doorway evoke the marital tension within, and in the second act, an oddly shaped drawing room suggests the Captain's growing emotional instability. Director Robert Brustein emphasizes the gladitorial nature of the conflicts, rarely placing more than two characters of opposite gender on the stage at any one time...