MOVIES - July 17, 1990

Die Harder, and a Lot More Often: When it comes to carnage, Bruce Willis’ “Die Harder” is hard to beat. New York Times movie critic Vincent Canby made a body count, and found that 264 people die in “Die Harder,” including 230 at once during a plane wreck. That compares to a mere 18 in 1988’s original “Die Hard.” According to the Canby count, “Rambo III” had the second-highest number of fatalities with 106. Sam Peckinpah’s landmark “The Wild Bunch” had 89, “Robocop II” had 81, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Total Recall” had 74 and “Rambo II” had 62.