Cole Hauser

Guilty-pleasure action sequences...amped-up visuals and hearty, young stars...the problem is that the stilted dialogue and style-over-substance form seem instantly dated.

With its ballsy, bar-raising disregard of sense, this solid sequel mildly improves upon the original...summer movie camp 2 gleefully preposterous 2 be dismissed.

A sleazy thriller which takes celebrity photo hounds to task for being sleazy...As in Gibson's...Payback, and others, the evil-doers must pay, Old Testament-style...

Once blithely acceptable as American id, McClane's become the archetypal American idiot.