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But Bruce Willis is a hero less in the tradition of Sylvester Stallone's indestructible Rambo than of Harrison Ford's damageable Indiana Jones. Willis' final victory is much more satisfying after having seen him drag his battered and bleeding body through the snow after suffering major defeats.
Diehard 2 is a little more lighthearted than the first movie, but thankfully doesn't degenerate into camp. The opening fight in the airport baggage-handling area confirms your worst suspicions about the real reason luggage tagged for Atlanta winds up in Anchorage. Unlike the heros of some adventure movies...
Bonnie Bedelia, who plays McLane's wife, Holly, does a fine job as one of the many unsuspecting hostages, and adds an element of comic relief. Her ability is wasted by simply using her as a trophy for Willis to claim after he slays his machine-gun toting dragons.
Not that everyone in the cast deserves Academy Awards. Nearly all the bad guys seem too mechanical. As a result, the sense of warrior-like competition between Willis and the bad guys is lost. In the first movie, there is more of a sense that Willis is playing a deadly...
Even for seasoned veterans of gory movies, some of the deaths are a bit too much--one bad guy gets his eye put out by an icicle. And for the sake of realism, the same blood Willis gets on his hands from his first killing stays on him for the...