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.
Keywords:
Helicopter
Airport
Based on novel or book
Ambush
Cop
Sequel
Snow
Shootout
Terrorism
Explosion
Church
Commando
News reporter
Air traffic control
Virginia
Terrorist plot
Snowmobile
Action hero
Plane crash
Christmas eve
Tense
Airplanes
Airport police
Rogue military
Washington dulles international airport
Movie tag line: "Die harder."
Character: John McClane
Character: Holly McClane
Character: Stuart
Character: Leslie Barnes
Character: Capt. Carmine Lorenzo