Olympus Has Fallen (2013).
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 t...