Top Five: Christmas Action Movies
2) Die Hard 2 (1990)
This isn’t a better movie than Lethal Weapon, but it’s a better Christmas movie. And a good sequel to boot. You can tell when someone is a fucking idiot when they call Die Hard 2 a bad movie, simply because they think that’s how it goes with sequels, and that that’s the cool and ‘in the know’ thing to say. But Die Hard 2, incredibly, doesn’t take a beating from its predecessor. I mean, trying to follow up that, and not looking like shit in comparison? Bravo.
In Die Hard 2, the weather outside is indeed fucking frightful – because it’s handled by Renny Harlin – and used as a plot device. It’s even more Christmas-ey in Die Hard 2 than in Die Hard. Like the original, it never quite jumps the shark, the action is damned close to perfection. It even has Richard ‘Dick’ Thornburg, Bonnie Bedila and Sg.t Al Powell! This movie is as much as a Christmas tradition now as Die Hard.
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