Die Hard 2 Die Harder is the second installment of the Die Hard series. The film is now 20 years old the film is once again set on Christmas Eve.  The film begins with McClane (Bruce Willis) waiting at the Washington Dulles International Airport for his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) to arrive from Los Angeles the flight also has on board reporter Richard Thornberg (William Atherton). While waiting for his wife’s flight McClane sits down and has a coffee, while drinking his coffee McClane spots two men dressed in army fatigues and carrying a package. The two men get up and leave, McClane follows them into the baggage area.  McClane announces himself to the men who respond by saying they work in the airport and then by pulling their guns on McClane and firing.  During the course of the fire fight one of them is killed while the other escapes. Before the dead mans body is removed from the airport McClane takes his finger prints so he can identify him.  McClane phones his old friend LAPD Sergeant Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson) and asks him to run the finger prints, Powell comes back with a startling discovery. McClane learns that the dead man was a mercenary who was thought to be killed in action, McClane believes something is about to happen.  Former US Army Special Forces Colonel Stuart (William Sadler) and other former members of his unit, O’Reilly (Robert Patrick) and Burke (John Leguizamo) set up a base in a small church near the airport. They take over air traffic control systems, stating that they want to rescue Ramon Esperanza (Franco Nero) a drug lord and dictator of a South American country named Val Verde, who is flying in for trial on drug trafficking charges. They demand a Boeing 747  ready and fueled so they can escape to another country and warn the Dulles air traffic controllers not to try to restore control to their systems. Upon learning about this, McClane becomes upset because his wife is on one of the planes which are circling above Washington with too little fuel to be redirected and therefore are most likely to crash if the terrorists remain in control. Dulles communications director Leslie Barnes (Art Evans) heads to the unfinished Annex Sky-walk with a SWAT team  to establish communications with the planes. Stuart’s henchmen ambush them, killing the SWAT team. more…

A group of elite mercenaries The Expendables are deployed to the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia to halt local pirates from executing the hostages. The team consists of leader Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) a former SAS soldier, blades specialist Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), martial artist Yin Yang (Jet Li), sniper Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren), weapons specialist Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) and demolitions expert Toll Road (Randy Couture). When the pirate leader demands more money than the agreed amount, Jensen instigates a firefight causing casualties for the pirates. Yang and Jensen fight and Ross intervenes. As a result of his psychological problems Ross reluctantly releases Jensen from the Expendables.  Ross and his rival mercenary leader Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger) go to see Mr Church (Bruce Willis) who names himself after the church they meet in. He offers them a mission in Vilena a fictional island in the Gulf of Mexico to overthrow a brutal dictator General Garza (David Zayas).  Busy with other things Trench gives the contract to Ross. Christmas visits his future fiance Lacy (Charisma Carpenter) whom he discovers has left him for another man.  Ross and Christmas do initial reconnaissance after meeting with their contact Sandra (Gisele Itié), only for the mission to go awry. Ross learns that Garza is backed by ex CIA agent James Munroe (Eric Roberts) whose henchmen Paine (Steve Austin) and Wickham (Gary Daniels) control and keep Garza in power by making his people fear him.  Sandra is revealed to be Garza’s daughter. more…

CIA agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie ) interrogates a Russian defector, Orlov who tells her about Day X an operation organized by a powerful Russian spymaster during the Cold War. Its goal is to bring about the destruction of the United States, Orlov mentions that at the funeral of the late Vice President  in New York City the visiting Russian President will be killed by a Russian spy named Evelyn Salt. Salt shaken by the accusation attempts to contact her husband Mike a German arachnologist fearing for his safety. Meanwhile Orlov escapes, prompting Salt to escape which causes the CIA to think she is a spy.  She flees to her apartment and finds her husband missing.  Salt quickly grabs essentials as well as a venomous spider. After barely escaping a highway pursuit, Salt takes a bus to New York City. The next morning she sneaks into the heavily guarded St Bartholomew’s Church  where the Vice President’s funeral is being held and shoots the Russian President. She is then confronted by Peabody and surrenders but soon escapes the NYPD.  A series of flashbacks show Salt growing up in the Soviet Union  where Orlov taught her and many other children to obey him and to ingratiate themselves into the American government. Then when it came to Day X, he would command them to strike from various positions in the US. Salt meets Orlov who congratulates her on her killing, but questions her decision to marry a foreigner who might be a distraction from her mission. He takes Evelyn to a river barge where he tests her allegiance by having another agent kill Mike in front of her. Salt appears to be unaffected by this, thus passing Orlov’s test.  He then tells her Part Two of Day X which would involve seizing the United States’ stock of nuclear weapons. The enraged Salt, who had gone to Orlov in an attempt to save her husband kills her master Orlov she used to worship and everyone else on the barge, because Mike was the only person who cared for her in a world where she was considered state property.   more…

Starring

John Travolta

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Melissa Mars

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Starring

Logan Lerman

Brandon T. Jackson

Alexandra Daddario

Jake Abel

Sean Bean

Pierce Brosnan

Steve Coogan

Joe Pantoliano

Uma Thurman

Ray Winstone

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Royce (Adrien Brody) awakens from unconsciousness to find himself parachuting into an unfamiliar jungle.  He meets several others who have arrived there in the same manner Mexican drug cartel enforcer Cuchillo (Danny Trejo), Spetsnaz soldier Nikolai (Oleg Taktarov), Israel Defense Forces sniper Isabelle (Alice Braga), Revolutionary United Front officer Mombasa (Mahershalalhashbaz Ali), death row inmate Stans (Walton Goggins), Yakuza enforcer Hanzo (Louis Ozawa Changchien) and doctor Edwin (Topher Grace). None of them know where they are or how they arrived there. Royce takes charge but reveals little about himself, though Isabelle suspects that he is a mercenary and former black ops  soldier.  He speculates that they have been brought to the jungle for a reason, since with the exception of Edwin they are all armed and lethal killers. In the jungle they find empty cages, plants with a neurotoxic poison that Edwin collects on a scalpel and a deceased United States Special Forces soldier.  Arriving at higher ground they find themselves staring at an alien sky and conclude that they are not on Earth. After the party is attacked by a pack of quadrupedal alien beasts, Royce deduces that the planet is some type of game preserve and that the humans are being hunted as game. Hearing Cuchillo’s cries for help, they find his dead body being used and voice being mimicked in an attempt to bait them into a trap. They follow the quadrupeds tracks to a hunting encampment and find a captive Predator. Three larger Predators attack, killing Mombasa, but the rest of the group escapes. Isabelle reveals that she has heard of these creatures before  from a report by the only survivor of a Special Forces team who encountered one in Guatemala in 1987. more…