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Scratch47
By the numbers action sequences with terrible CGI, pacing, lighting, and editing. Worse acting, plot, dialogue, and characterization. Gerald Butler deserves better, Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckhart can DO better. Includes laughable patriotism, contrived holes in narrative, action stereotypes, and some pointless scenes of gruesome and misogynistic violence for the icing on the cake. Seriously guys, there's a fucking TICKING CLOCK. A huge missed opportunity, and I'll be waiting for 'White House Down' in a few months to wash the taste of this out of my mouth. This was the same director that did Training Day? Are you SERIOUS? Modern action deserves so much better than this piece of trash.PS. Die Hard called, it wants the glass in the feet of the hero back.
dpanter
You really shouldn't expect a movie about a terrorist attack on the White House to be anything less than super-mega-Patriotic with a capital P. If anything, the movie shows rather a lot of restraint in this area. Given the story, it could have been so much worse. Still, it's a bit thick, in every sense of the word.The action was good, well paced and exciting. The CGI suffered at times and there was really no room for the acting talent on the roster to thrive. Several story points were wasted.
Recommended. Beware: heavy USA#1 patriotism.
mtdex
MURRICA.superjools
...a total waste of money and Freemans and Butlers huge talent.Here, have my first dislike you bad, bad movie!
Earring72
Die Hard in The White House........but suprisingly good. Well made action movie, goes a bit overboard storywise but great fun. It is violent though.....MrDoog
This was basically Die Hard 1...... if Die Hard had had no sense of humour, took itself and all its cheesiness deadly serious, if the lead actor had no personality or charisma, had vomit inducing over the top patriotism and flag waving and had an inferior cardboard cutout of an antagonist.Riddled with the same old tired out cliches, this movie was a contemptible pile of horse shit.
Vinsmid
Yeah!! I kind of like this one-man-army bullcrap. The eighties kid in me seems to need this once in a while...panpeter1212
For the good people in this there was really no plot and all they did was shoot each other and blow up things. Pass.ThomasFTB
Production values a notch or two above what you'd see in an Asylum movie or one of those Syfy Originals.Fairly dull characters.
A few good action scenes, though, and the ludicrous weapon the Koreans whip out to shoot down Seal helicopters that looks like something you drew in your notebook in highschool kinda helped the fun-level out.
Watchable, but White House Down is way better.
johnrobinsonn
My main issue with Olympus Has Fallen was that the violence was beyond gratuitous. I'm not averse to violence in movies as long as it's necessary to further the plot in some way but...EnggarB
Good action, but very cliche...I can't believe Mike Banning is much stronger than Inspector Vijay!! LOLsamoan
I haven't seen this movie since 2013. I remember it being hilarious with the way it depicted computer hacking and passwords. For Example:Siskoid
In the category "can't believe they're still making these", Olympus Has Fallen tastelessly trades on 9/11 anxieties by presenting an attack on the White House (director Antoine Fuqua's only stylistic flair is for America Under Attack imagery), and only super secret service agent Gerard Butler can pull a Die Hard and get the president out alive. You know when I say "buy the premise, buy the bit"? Well, it's really hard to buy the premise here. There's no way a well-armed Korean army would park itself on the White House lawn that easily, and it's lazy writing to ask us to believe it could. Worse, the only way the villain can make his super-villain plot happen (and yes, I think this would work better as a superhero movie) is for high officials to make decisions they never would in real life. Not even a matter of debate and circumstance, it's nonsense. Now, you can still make that work, but if the rest of the movie lacks any kind of humor, is often needlessly violent, and its action sequences are, for the most part, boring and murky, well... Wasted a strong cast's time, and ours.danisanna
So cheesy and clichéForzelius
Quite liked it. Was a little confused to see Conrad Hall being the cinematographer as I remembered he died some time ago, then it hit me that he had a son.Plot-wise Fuqua covered it quite nicely, hiring former Secret Service agents to brainstorm it certainly helped. I was entertained and didn't felt cheated.
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