Review of London Has Fallen (2016) by Jonathan K — 23 Mar 2016

This is exactly what I expected it to be, a dumb action movie. It's pretty damn terrible, but I guess you can turn your brain off for a couple of hours and watch Gerard Butler kick some ass. Did I think this movie was going to be perfect or even good? Not really. However I still have a lot of problems with it. 1. How did the terrorists at the start possibly survive the bombing? It literally made no sense at all. Only the daughter died? They did take one of the sons legs off, but the father and oldest son weren't hurt at all. 2. The effects in this were terrible. The fire at the end looked like something we would see in an old 80's movie, not a movie in 2016. 3. I hated how heavy handed it was on promoting America as the be all, end all. They literally show the American flag straight after they drop a bomb on a bunch of terrorists. Could you be anymore obvious? 4. I didn't buy the motivation behind the agent who is the mole.

They only thing that got me through this movie, was the on screen presence that Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart have. The story was terrible and had no plausibility. They were clearly trying to pull at people's current fears that this will one day happen. It was just so dumb, and these movies are really not helping the perception of middle easterners. It feels like a movie that could have been directed by Donald Trump.