Die Hard 2
“Die harder.”
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.
How Die Hard 2 compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Die Hard, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #3 of 5
- Rank in the series by rating
- 2 years
- Wait since the previous film
- 17%
- Share of the series audience
Die Hard 2 (1990) ranks 3rd of the 5 rated films in the Die Hard series, at 7.0/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.8/10.
It arrived 2 years after Die Hard (1988).
Its 6,579 TMDB ratings are 17% of the 39,394 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Die Hard, comparing all 5 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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