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.

• DirectorRenny Harlin
• Release3 July 1990
• Genre
  Action / Thriller
• Duration2h 4m
• Budget$70,000,000
• Revenue$240,031,094
• Rate
  

  6.958
  5988 reviews
• Productions

  Gordon Company, Silver Pictures, 20th Century Fox