Save for director Antoine Fuqua, who moved on to the greener pastures of, um, The Equalizer, most of the key players from Olympus have returned: Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman (he was speaker of the House before in this movie he's the vice president), Academy Award winner Melissa Leo as the secretary of defense, Academy Award nominee Angela Bassett as the director of the Secret Service, Academy Award nominee Robert Forster as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
"I've never seen a man suffocate before," a shell-shocked Asher blurts after a surprise throat-punching demonstration. As before, he kills scores of people in blurry, underlit confrontations mostly using firearms, but with a marked propensity for stabbing when a tool is available. He is a classic reluctant warrior, minus the reluctance. The only man POTUS can trust to get him out is Secret Service agent Mike Banning, once again played by Gerard Butler, a vaguely sentient three-day beard who is no better at hiding his Scottish brogue than Sean Connery was, though he sort of tries.īanning's wife (Australian Radha Mitchell) is expecting their first child any day now he has been fussing over the diction of a two-sentence email that would announce his resignation from the Secret Service. But as the Royal Navy's Lord Admiral Ackbar once observed, "It's a trap!" A Pakistani arms merchant (Israeli actor Alon Moni Aboutboul) seeking revenge for the death of his family in a drone strike has flooded the British capital with hundreds of would-be assassins dressed like cops. The premise this time is that President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) must attend the funeral of the British prime minister. In the sense that what initially looks like a mostly harmless hit of nostalgia for Reagan-era junk food turns out to be a slow-release capsule of apocalyptic dread. My fellow Americans, I can say this without fear of overreach: London Has Fallen is the Fuller House of red-meat action movies. Olympus was the 36th-highest-grossing film in America that year, but its visible penny-pinching and its modest success abroad have been factored in to make a follow-up as inevitable as Zoolander 2 or Fuller House. It's the sequel to Olympus Has Fallen, the gnarlier and less funny of 2013's two (!) Die Hard rip-offs set inside the White House.
Gerard Butler stars as Mike Banning in London Has Fallen.Ī moment of silence, please, for the many fictional lives lost and nonfictional careers sullied in London Has Fallen.
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