Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

To me, this movie is perfection.

hyped garbage

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

There are already many reviews here discussing some of the many ways that this is a painfully dumb movie, but let me just mention one, which I think is the most important one. Not only is this movie incredibly dumb, but it's so very dumb that it doesn't even realize that the bad guys won in the end. The U.S. Government gives in to MASSIVE terrorist demands that potentially cause the deaths of millions, all just to save the single life of the President, and not only do they do this, but they do it in full view of the entire world. I mean the entire world would see us as foolish cowards (and rightly so), all our allies would lose all faith in us, which could have devastating consequences to our international status and our economy, and every group of terrorists out there would declare it open season on our weak, pushover nation, but hooray, the good guys blew up the single cell of terrorists involved and saved the President so everything's fine now, right? What a terrifying level of naivety.

It is hard to find words for how bad this movie is. Not in terms of acting and technical execution, which are perfectly competent. But why oh why did anyone make the decision to produce this movie? And why, once it was produced, did not someone with a modicum of intelligence and taste not stop it from being released? The story is repeatedly so incredibly stupid that it is hard to believe that anyone with enough intelligence to dress themselves allowed it to proceed to filming. And the only potential audience for it would appear to be people without enough intelligence to function at a minimal level in the world, and with depraved tastes. I can only say that my advice is flee... do not waste a minute of your time on this obnoxious garbage.

'Olympus Has Fallen' is not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, but judging from the reviews was honestly expecting much worse. Even for taking it for it is and aimed to do, it could have been much better.This said, it is much better than its successor 'London Has Fallen'...now that was an awful film, with no obvious redeeming values, and one of the worst films from that year. 'Olympus Has Fallen' at least tried to be fun and has much better action scenes (such as the audaciously staged terrorist attack, all of the action in 'London Has Fallen' is routine at best).It also looks better, apart from some excessive shaky cam in places and the special effects are far from brilliant, in fact cartoonish and fake, but there is some atmospheric grit and the film is well shot instead of mostly looking like SyFy/Asylum fodder. With the exceptions of an annoying Melissa Leo and Aaron Eckhart phoning it in, the acting is not bad here with dignified Angela Basset and particularly Morgan Freeman giving the best performances. Gerard Butler does struggle with some of his one-liners, which honestly are not that good (pretty pithy actually) in the first place, but is a very capable action hero and charismatic lead. Rick Yune does his best, but his character is forgettable and very sketchy, like all the characters here. The direction at least has some tension.However, 'Olympus Has Fallen' goes for the fast, big and loud approach, sometimes that's not a bad thing but it didn't come off well here. The pacing is rather rushed often, while also losing momentum in crucial parts too, while the big and loud like its sequel is so constant there is little room to breathe and it becomes nauseating and repetitive in every way possible.Much of the script consists of pithy one-liners and cheesy quips that feel like clumsy attempts at humour, while also making little to no attempt at giving much personality or development to the characters (leaving the actors to do all the leg work and they mostly do credibly in that respect). The story is certainly not as intelligence insulting as that of 'London Has Fallen', but while it tries not to be too derivative of 'Die Hard' it is not that original and it outside of the action lacks suspense and proper excitement which are mistaken for lapses in logic and lack of suspense.All in all, not great, instead a mediocre film, but not as awful as expected. Even with its numerous flaws, if asked which is better between 'Olympus Has Fallen' and 'London Has Fallen' the answer is clear. 4/10 Bethany Cox

I have watched action thriller Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and this week. 🤗After noticing London has Fallen has been released, I thought I should not delay watching Olympus Has Fallen. We don't get many hard hitting action movies like this anymore. Bad guys who mean serious business, the lone hero determined to win the day, people get killed, stuff blows up, and you get to see Ashley Judd die. What kind of red-blooded all American doesn't like seeing this kind of movie? Of course its not realistic, find an action movie that is. The whole point of a movie like this is to escape FROM reality, to shut your brain off for a couple of hours and have some fun. And yeah its pretty much Die Hard meets Air Force One but who cares its all about the excitement, seeing whats going to happen next. The only downside I had was that it was a little too obvious who the traitor was in the movie (I mean come on isn't he always a bad guy). Overall I give the movie a solid 8 out of 10. It's exactly what an action movie should be, it gives you the jumps, the thrills, a hero to root for and a villain you love to hate. Though predictable, it was like Die Hard - Commando action packed movie. Never thought such a pre-planned attack would work at the WhiteHouse. The director must have liked Aaron's and Freeman's role in TDK.If you think a movie like this isn't for you I suggest you watch a Twilight movie, it doesn't have Gerard Butler killing terrorists....but it does have a sissy that sparkles.