Review of London Has Fallen- review by Chris Stuckmann

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[00:00:04] London Has Fallen is the sequel to the surprisingly successful Olympus Has Fallen, and once again, it stars Gerard Butler as the greatest Secret Service agent ever protecting the president, played by Aaron Eckhart in London. When terrorists attacked the city trying to assassinate the president as well as other leaders who are present for this big funeral, Olympus has fallen. I actually enjoyed I like that first film largely because of Antoine Fuqua, his direction. He directed a fairly tense movie. And it also had a lot of comparisons to Die Hard five because it came out at just the right time. A couple of months after the highly disappointing Die Hard five and a lot of people viewed Olympus has fallen as the die hard five. We didn’t get with this film. There’s some good and some bad. Now the director’s name is back Najafi. I largely enjoyed the way he directed this film. The action was mostly well handled. There are some very poorly edited sequences, though, involving a car chase under a bridge where like this guy knocks the door off the car and then pops out of the window and starts shooting. Now, this would all be fine and dandy if key moments weren’t missing from the editing room. For some reason, it was like this cut doors falling off, cut. Banning’s already out the window. What like what happened during that time period? The large majority of the action, though, is mostly passable.

[00:01:12] The best sequence towards the end is made to look like one take. And that’s the thing lately. Directors like to do that room, do this thing in one take, make it look like one take. You can tell where the cuts are. Somebody jumps through some smoke and the smoke obscures the frame for a while and then we get into our next shot. But it’s still the same shot. They want you to think that anyway, the last twenty minutes or so I did find very entertaining from an action standpoint, but up until then it was mostly just fine. And I would say that word pretty much describes my entire feeling for this movie. It was fine. It was all right. It wasn’t anything special. It wasn’t as good as the first one. The first one was just enjoyable. You know, it wasn’t like this great thing. It was just kind of a mindless action movie that felt sort of like it came out in nineteen ninety seven or something. And this film has that vibe as well. Trust me, people are going to overanalyze this film’s politics and say things like it’s overly patriotic and all these kinds of things without realizing that it’s just a mindless action movie made to make audiences go, yeah, a couple of times.

[00:02:04] That’s really all London has fallen is and sometimes it succeeds. Gerard Butler is really good in the movie. I thought he did well in the action scenes. He was funny. He was likeable. His interplay with Aaron Eckhart was also very good. It is highly forgettable, though, and that’s, I think, its biggest flaw. This movie is incredibly disposable. You can watch it may maybe like on a rainy day. I wouldn’t really recommend seeing this in theaters. This movie is just fine. If you have nothing else to do and it comes on TV, or maybe you pick up the Blu ray one day from some rental box store, Netflix, whatever, that is probably where this film will be appreciated the most. That being said, walking out of this movie, someone came up to me and said, Hey, Chris, watching the movie. And I went, was all right. And this older lady next to me went just all right. Yeah. I mean, you know, I thought it was all right, you know, different opinions and stuff. Well, that’s true. So, you know, some people are really going to like this movie and think it’s the best movie ever made, but, you know, it’s all right, I’m going to give London has fallen a C plus. And please stay tuned for this Sunday for my retro rewind of Superman’s 64.

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