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First Reviews for 'London has Fallen'

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It makes the 2013 original Olympus Has Fallen — loglined as “Die Hard in the White House” – seem in nostalgic comparison like quality entertainment and a model of logic and good taste. No small feat for a blood-soaked Antoine Fuqua actioner where the vile foreign invaders did everything short of drop-kicking the presidential puppy off the West Wing balcony.
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http://m.thestar.com/#/article/ente...llen-and-so-will-your-brain-cells-review.html

Other than serving as proof that Gerard Butler can make movies that are even worse than “Gods of Egypt” (not that this should be encouraged), there is absolutely nothing of value to “London Has Fallen” and the fact that it will no doubt pull in more money at the box office in its opening weekend than Terrence Malick's “Knight of Cups” will gross in its entire run is too depressing to even contemplate. Unless you have some insane desire to see what will surely go down as one of the very worst films of 2016, you would be far better served staying at home and finally giving “White House Down” a look.
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http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/london-has-fallen-2016


President Benjamin Asher needs two things: better security personnel and better scriptwriters.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/movies/london-has-fallen-review.html

It’s difficult to imagine anyone appearing in this film thought of it as more than a payday.
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http://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/london-has-fallen-the-fast-and-the-foggy/

Iranian-born director Babak Najafi, who not surprisingly staged something called Easy Money II, botches the action sequences so crudely, consistently and cynically that he makes Michael Bay look like Kurosawa.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/london-has-fallen-20160304


For those who like their terrorism-fighting extra Trump-y, the extended macho grunt called "London Has Fallen" might be required viewing for a portion of the blustery candidate's followers. Ostensibly a sequel to "Olympus Has Fallen," the White House siege movie of three years ago, this by-the-numbers slog, which returns stars Gerard Butler as Secret Service bad-ass Mike Banning and Aaron Eckhart as kidnap-prone U.S. President Asher, more accurately represents a geopolitical obliteration fantasy flushed from the mind of the angriest and dumbest and most conspiracy-minded among us.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-london-has-fallen-review-20160304-story.html


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Other than serving as proof that Gerard Butler can make movies that are even worse than “Gods of Egypt” (not that this should be encouraged), there is absolutely nothing of value to “London Has Fallen”
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Oh dear god.
 
What viewers get instead is an ersatz approximation of a violent power fantasy: Banning glowering uncontrollably as masked thugs of implied Middle Eastern origin lunge at him and are killed just out of frame, leading President Asher to yelp out some variation on “Jesus, Mike! Did you have to kill that guy?” before being reminded that yes, he did.
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AV Club's review is great.
 
did they at least have the decency to have a creepy slowed down ltitle girl version of 'london bridge is falling down' playing in the trailer?

I expect the movie to respect me enough to at least do this if it wants to hold my interest.
 
Saw it tonight....eh somewhat enjoyable if you can completely shut your brain off to the absurdly ridiculous plot and enjoy the action.
 
Other than serving as proof that Gerard Butler can make movies that are even worse than “Gods of Egypt” (not that this should be encouraged), there is absolutely nothing of value to “London Has Fallen”
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Yeah...I'll skip this instead of watching it like I originally wanted to.
 
wenis said:
no he didnt. he just said it's sad to think knight of cups will never get the success that LHF will see in it's run.
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But that's what I mean, why bother? Who cares which one gets more views, how does that effect your enjoyment of a film? It's just seems like a meaningless point to throw into a review and reads more like, "oh why don't these peasants understand true art?"
 
mugurumakensei said:
Is today Opposite Day? White House Down was a much more enjoyable movie. Olympus has fallen was dumb, bad, and boring.
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I enjoyed Olympus more because it was a die hard kind of movie and I'm a sucker for those...i know WHD is sort of the same thing but Olympus had better action in my opinion.
 
foxtrot3d said:
But that's what I mean, why bother? Who cares which one gets more views, how does that effect your enjoyment of a film? It's just seems like a meaningless point to throw into a review and reads more like, "oh why don't these peasants understand true art?"
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a meaningless point for a meaningless movie. :shrug: maybe there was a word limit the review needed to be ;)
 
I worked on this movie. it was my first on set hollywood experience and let's just say it was pretty eye opening and I'm not surprised at the reviews. haha
 
Other than serving as proof that Gerard Butler can make movies that are even worse than “Gods of Egypt”
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foxtrot3d said:
But that's what I mean, why bother? Who cares which one gets more views, how does that effect your enjoyment of a film? It's just seems like a meaningless point to throw into a review and reads more like, "oh why don't these peasants understand true art?"
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Just critic trying to show off how intellectually superior they are for only enjoy higher art.
 
The original was so terrible I decided I wanted to see this one while extremely drunk, and these reviews are doing nothing to change that notion.
 
Jackpot said:
How offensive will it be to UKers? Worse than the last season of 24?
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The trailer is one of the rare cases where I've ever personally felt offended by something, so if the actual movie follows suit, I can imagine quite a bit.

Mind you, I also first saw the trailer a couple of weeks after the Paris attacks, so that really didn't help with my impression.
 
I saw White House Down for the first time recently, and I enjoyed it a lot more than Olympus Has Fallen. It definitely feels like it has some Die Hard DNA in there and Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx do a better job of leading the film, with an edge of self-aware silliness to boot.

Finaj said:
Zootopia it is, then.
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Was there ever any doubt?!

Anyway, with this and Gods of Egypt back-to-back, is it safe to say Gerard Butler's career as the leading man is done with?

oti xero said:
Why is that movie called Olympus Has Fallen anyway? It doesn't play in Greece.
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I don't remember if it's referenced in the film, but I took it to be them implying that the White House of the modern day equivalent of Mount Olympus. Which is pretty fucking arrogant, come to think of it.
 
oti xero said:
What? Really? The codename of the white house is Olympus? The mountain where the GODS live?

Really?

Really America?

I'm not mad but this is very amusing to me.
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Centre of western civilisation symbolism, plus the home of the 'most powerful man in the world' (President as opposed to Zeus). I mean, its the same basic reasoning the Percy Jackson series has for taking place in the USA.
 
foxtrot3d said:
But that's what I mean, why bother? Who cares which one gets more views, how does that effect your enjoyment of a film? It's just seems like a meaningless point to throw into a review and reads more like, "oh why don't these peasants understand true art?"
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Because it's a shame when schlock gets rewarded while more thoughtfully produced stuff gets ignored? How is that some kind of snobbery? He's saying this other movie would check all the same boxes for someone interested in a movie like London Has Fallen, but nobody will see the other movie because it doesn't have a massive ad campaign so people don't know about it.
 
JonnyDBrit said:
Centre of western civilisation symbolism, plus the home of the 'most powerful man in the world' (President as opposed to Zeus). I mean, its the same basic reasoning the Percy Jackson series has for taking place in the USA.
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Nuh bruh, that's just dumb. Comparing Zeus to a human being displays ignorance towards (sometimes pretty silly, no question) Greek mythology. But being offended by this would be just as dumb.

It's just really amusing to declare the White House the modern Mountain Olympus. The audacity to do that is something else.

But, why are we even talking about this lol. This London movie seems to be terrible. :D
 
That's too bad. I thought Olympus Has Fallen was a decent enough Die Hard type movie (and was certainly better then Die Hard 5).
 
Jackpot said:
How offensive will it be to UKers? Worse than the last season of 24?
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you havent gotten used to it yet? I mean, who gives a shit anymore after Braveheart and Patriot, let alone the dozens of tv shows and movies depicting the English as super stereotyped assholes

and 24 already did much worse in previous seasons
 
Saw a preview screening of this. It wasn't good. The AV Club review is pretty spot on.

It will appeal to some demographic though. There were some people applauding at the end of my show. It's probably not a good thing, but the first thing I thought of was that those people would be voting for Donald Trump.
 
Junior Asparagus said:
Saw a preview screening of this. It wasn't good. The AV Club review is pretty spot on.

It will appeal to some demographic though. There were some people applauding at the end of my show. It's probably not a good thing, but the first thing I thought of was that those people would be voting for Donald Trump.
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People clapped at Gods of Egypt too.
Gerard Butler must have one committed fan base
 
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