Blu-ray Review: Die Hard 2 - Die Harder - Page 2

Part of: The Wild Blu Yonder

The first making-of aired on HBO and runs for nearly 25 minutes. It's obviously a commercial, but behind the scenes footage is always welcome. The second 4-minute short was contained in a press kit for the film. Four deleted scenes of varying length are included and one of them is an alternate take.

Renny Harlin is featured in a brief interview while a short featurette on the movie's villains is included in the same section of the features menu. A short but deep look at two action sequences, the snowmobile chase and conveyor belt gunfight, gives an overview of how these scenes came together. Storyboards are included for the attack on the SWAT team. Visual effect breakdowns show certain scenes in various forms of completion up until the final cut. Finally, three scenes are shown intercut with footage from other stages of the shot.

Welcome to corporate brilliance at its best. Die Hard 2 carries all of its DVD special features from the two disc special edition. Die Hard barely received any of them. There’s no excuse for ripping off the customer in this way.

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