Olympus Has Fallen (2013).

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This film was heavily slated by many of the reviews I have read and some friends didn’t say nice things about it either. I enjoyed most of this high octane action thriller. It was a great study of what a direct attack on the White House might look like and how a terrorist group might exploit weaknesses in the White House’s defence systems. Sometimes it’s is all too easy to assume that a major iconic building is secure, such has been demonstrated in recent years by people breaking into Buckingham Palace, including one man who entered the Queen’s bedroom and chatted with her for several minutes, before being carted off. However it is not the weaknesses in the White House which really defines whether this film is good or bad. It is the weaknesses in the plot. Firstly, the President was a complete coward and gave away very sensitive information and commanded his team to do the same, just with the threat of being harmed, including a four star General, knowing that terrorists would use that information to destroy the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

Secondly would the American’s really put the life of their president ahead of the lives hundred’s of millions of people? I genuinely don’t know the answer to that question, but this film thinks it knows.

Thirdly when America is about to be blown to Kingdom Come, with seconds to spare, Gerard Butler is nursing the presidents wounds and comforting him. Eh? What has Hollywood come to, if it’s more important to tend to the President’s flesh wound than to save the lives of everyone in America?

Lastly every time patriotic music came on I had an overwhelming urge to salute. American films involving the US President always do this, and it is very soppy and pathetic. Be proud of your nation and it’s highest office, but come on. Do we really need salutes and patriotic music every time the pretend president comes onto the screen?

Despite these irritations, I did enjoy the action sequences a great deal. However, this goes down as one of those lost opportunities which comes along once in a while, to make a fairly serious film about what might happen if the White House was attacked by enemy forces. A coup in a Western democracy is great storyline, but this film just didn’t quite make the most of it.

3 out of 5.

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