Olympus has Fallen (2013)

We watched Olympus has fallen in prep for the sequel in theaters. Die Hard in the WhiteHouse.

We watched Olympus has fallen to prep for the sequel London has Fallen (2016). Die Hard in the WhiteHouse. You don't watch for believability, but for good ol' action. Silly, over the top, one guy taking on an army kind of action. Little new, totally predictable, but fun popcorn flick anyways. .

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2016-03-05

Sometimes, I feel like the chick in the family. My wife watches the football, and enjoys a good action flick and suggests we go to see them. This was one of those movies, "Let's see London has fallen". OK. We hadn't see the anchor movie (Olympus has fallen), so we had to watch it on TV: they were kind enough to release it to TV the night before.

It can best be summed up as Die Hard in the Whitehouse. Same attitude, cheesy lines, plot devices, and attention to accuracy/physics/mortality (ahem). And best of all, no Joe Pesci (yea, I know, that was Lethal Weapon, but does it really matter?).

You aren't watching this for the believability -- you're watching it because you want want an action film, with good ol' indestructible good guys, shooting, stabbing and otherwise committing mayhem on the plethora of fodder, known as the bad guys -- with just enough backstory to assuage any guilt over watching a bloody video-game on the big screen.

We saw the Presidential Guard (and Presidents best buddy?) Mike Banning playing the role of John McClane as a Secret Service agent -- while the WhiteHouse is taken over by a perfectly coordinated terrorist army, who destroys models of the Whitehouse and wants to setoff a doomsday device. Yeah, you don't go in expecting original, or plausible, you just gotta roll with it. The TV edited version was of course hacked up with, "Gosh darn it!", and cuts at the gory money shots. But got the gist.

They don't really bother to explain why the terrorists are doing it, much about their objective, just cartoon bad guys. Not deep. Not horrible. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 48/67 -- which means the audience was fine it with, but the Reviewers thought it was celluloid toilet-paper.... of course the thing comes to mind, why can't it be both? Enjoyable, and no depth at all. Die Hard in the WhiteHouse. But the reviewers lost their shit on the sequel, because the bad guys weren't white but dark skinning this time. (Rolls eyes).

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In the end, it's a solid bloody shoot-em up. Bad guys are going to die, lead character good-guys are going to live (with a few heartfelt sacrifices and dying utterances to justify them being mad and violent). And it's going to be a machine gun opera. Sort of Bollywood with lots of red-dye filled squibs. If you don't like those, you'll hate it. If you want to see this mindless fluff, you won't feel robbed.

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