1990 - Rated R - 2 hr 4 min
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Bruce Willis, William Atherton, Bonnie Bedalia, Reginald VelJohnson
Aside from the awesome title, this isn't my favorite of the series. It tries to reuse the original's model for the beginning portion (except this time he's an LA cop in NY, instead of the other way around) and even pokes fun at it - "How can this happen to the same guy twice?"
Then it gets a bit extreme with plane crashes and airborne fight scenes. It feels a bit hectic and overdone... but Bruce Willis still kicks butt. It's fun to watch, but when you've got the first movie and the third one to watch, you'll probably skip this one nine times out of ten. That's probably why it's the one I remembered the least. Makes sense.
This to me is probably the perfect example of sequelitis: a disease where the makers say "Let's do EVERYTHING exactly the same, even if it doesn't make sense!" Thus you have needless crap like the reporter from the first movie and it all happens at Christmas... for no good reason other than that's what they did the first time.
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