Renny Harlin

As a director of primarily action-oriented films, Renny Harlin began his career in the late 1980s on a promising note with the lucrative “Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master” (1988). Immediately following the highly profitable fourth installment to the horror series, Harlin – previously a successful filmmaker in his native Finland – suddenly found himself to be Hollywood’s go-to director of action movies. He kept expectations high with “Die Hard 2” (1990), another box office success that gave many the impression that this was no one-hit wonder. But Harlin started to falter a bit with