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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 t

The Dove Sun...

The Dove Sun Synopsis: The Sun is coming to the end of its life. The rich and privileged use superior technology to leave the Earth and go in search of new planets; their fate unclear. The poor, the uneducated and the sick are left behind in the dust and certainty of death in the face of an expanding, Super Red Sun. Nathan and Kiren had been a couple since they were children. In the small, dusty settlement where they grew up, they fight for resources with their large chaotic families. When Nathan’s father is injured in an accident, he bargains with the local Imam to send one of his children to the Great Hall to receive a dignified and religious death, in return for medicine. And without a choice, Nathan and Kiren set off for the Great Hall, knowing nothing of the incredible secrets they hold inside them. ISBN-13: 978-1492129486 ISBN: 1492129488 Author: B.C.Bamber Imprint: Vagabond Unlimited. RRP: £5.99. ISBN: 978-09549691-8-9 Smashwords ISBN: 9781301278336 Print