Review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013) by James M — 09 Dec 2013
It's Die Hard in the White House and about 20 years too late.
The movie opens with some ridiculously over-patriotic music even worse than Air Force One and then fades in to reveal Secret Service agent Gerard Butler & US President Aaron Eckhart having a little sparring match at Camp David, so we know that even though he's the President, he's not to be trifled with... Fast forward 18 months and Gerard Butler is demoted to a government desk job and married to a self-important, prissy bitch.
The white house falls under attack by Korean terrorists & really bad CGI and then it's formulaic bullshit time.
As you can tell, I didn't think too much of this movie. It's just cliche after cliche swimming in a big pool of mediocrity.
It's not terrible, I just enjoyed it much better in 1992 when it was called Under Siege.
This review of Olympus Has Fallen (2013) was written by James M on 09 Dec 2013.
Olympus Has Fallen has generally received mixed reviews.
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