Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013) by Trent S — 03 Jan 2015

"Another movie president is in danger from epic-equipped bad guys with the know how, the positioning and the training to take down the most protected building on earth. And only one man has the hope to actually sell this done to the death plot line is.... Morgan Freeman...".

An OTT, OP army of Korean uber terrorists manage to successfully evade detection of the FBI, CIA, NSA, NSR for years building specialist equipment for their perfect circumvention of wave after wave of mindless secret service agents to successfully kidnap the US president in his own bunker using inside agents in a foreign delegation, shooting each other and a bunch of "cute, innocent targets" in the head with high calibre weapons.

I don't know how its ends because I turned if off at about 20 mins after the umpteeth innocent bystander/fifteenth hostage was gratuitously shot dead - and incidentally after the "don't negotiate with terrorists" general in charge wusses out because the president is himself a hostage...

And the audience is supposed to believe that King Leonidas with a gun can somehow overcome all these impossible odds to save the day and the president (who cuts a worse presidential figure than Harrison Ford)?

The violence is more gratuitous than Commando, The Running Man, Rambo 1-4, Expendables 1 & 2 put together. The plot has been overdone to the death (vs aliens, vs renegade military (XXX 2), vs ruskies of a plane, vs renegade military again (white house down) and now what has to be Kim Jong Il's late night fantasies come true).

This movie takes itself and its plot too seriously. White House Down is much more realistic - which doesn't shy away from the fact that it is far fetched.