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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Murder at 1600 (1997)

Calamity in the White House, a movie motif on the increase after 1996s Mars Attacks and Independence Day, continues with this 1997 action mystery in which Wesley Snipes' get-in-there-and-do-it detective and Diane Lane's cool give-nothing-away Secret Service agent investigate the murder of a woman in a White House toilet cubicle and the pair of investigators go renegade, even breaking into the White House via its unsecured access tunnels, when they uncover a, yawn, conspiracy involving the President, the President's son, an international hostage situation, and a motive for murder that very strongly suggests - again - that film thinks women are completely disposable objects.

★★☆☆☆

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