Showing posts with label HasFallen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HasFallen. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 July 2021

Angel Has Fallen (2019)

All you need to know is that this Part Three of the ...Has Fallen action-thriller series is the one where the President's star security agent, hero Mike Banning (an almost too-old-for-this Gerard Butler) becomes the hunted, like Ethan Hunt and Jason Bourne before him, on the run from his own agency, with the by-the-numbers action taking place on highways, at gas stations, on logging roads and at a hideaway in the woods - oh, and Dad turns up - rather than in the series' usual Die Hard-esque besieged fortress, and it is mindless, adequate but hardly excites for the future of the series where Bourne, I mean Banning, starts to recover lost memories of adamantium implant operations or finds himself having to reconnect with his estranged son and fellow agent played by Jai Courtney.

★★☆☆☆

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Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

The US President is held hostage in a White House overtaken by North Korean terrorists and only John McClane -- I mean, only Gerard Butler's Mike Banning -- can save the day, in this oh-so-lame Die Hard ripoff that steals entire scenes but lacks the humour, charisma, sense, and suspense of the action movie classic.

★☆☆☆☆

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