i do not think i will ever understand the hate for renny harlin . die hard 2 be cool and and he give the world cliffhanger and one of the most awesome action movie ever . that right and you little punk and cliffhanger rule and and we all know it . sly play gabe walker and a former rescue climber who be just visit his old town when he be ask to help a former friend and hal tucker ( michael rooker ) and assist in a rescue on a mountain peak . walker obviously come back at a convenient time and because the stranded people be actually a sophisticated team of thief lead by eric qualen ( john lithgow ) . qualen and co. have lose a whole lot of money they steal from the u. s. government somewhere in the rocky mountain and they really would like it back . essentially and cliffhanger be another die hard clone . just trade in the confines of nakatomi plaza to the open mountain range of the rocky mountain and complete with scene create to point out the weakness of our hero and keep him mortal . naturally and that set up be totally rip to shred soon enough and a stallone character avoids quite a large number of bullet with ease and and slam face first into several rock face with no apparent side effect . after all and isn not that what action movie be all about . cliffhanger be one of the most exciting action movie around . a showcase of great scene and stunt . one of the early stunt be one of the best stunt i have ever see in a movie and and while the rest of the movie do not get any good than it do at the beginning and it maintain it action awesomeness . john lithgow lead villain be entertain and and one bad dude . quite possibly one of the cool lead villain ever . cliffhanger be easily one of stallone best effort and definitely renny harlin best effort and and a very exciting action movie positive .