Friday, May 17, 2013

Olympus Has Fallen



Mike Banning is a broken man. A former Secret Service agent, he now sits behind a desk piled with documents at the U.S. Treasury Department. Almost two years prior, Banning failed to protect the First Lady when their car slid off a bridge into an icy river, resulting in her death. He's been carrying the weight of this guilt hoping for the chance to redeem himself and regain his position as one of the President's protectors. His feelings of guilt have taken a toll on his job and his marriage.

The redemption that Banning longs for comes in the form of an opportunity to save the President and his son. A small North Korean rebel faction has infiltrated the White House by way of deception; they make the President think they are a South Korean delegation to discuss the possibility of North Korea becoming a viable threat. The President and his cabinet are taken hostage, and after exhausting every possible way of saving them the government turns to the one man who could save them and stop the terrorists from releasing nuclear missiles: Mike Banning.

For a movie that has a plot that's been done over and over again, Olympus Has Fallen is pretty darn entertaining. Olympus has more of a believable plot than most action films of this nature where a "lone ranger" of sorts is left to save the day. The violence does get a little painful to watch at times - I had to personally look away when Banning takes a knife and shoves it up into a terrorist's chin, among other graphic scenes. Despite this, however, I still had a lot of fun. Gerard Butler is pretty fantastic as the gung-ho hero. Olympus Has Fallen is one of the better movies of this genre out there. 

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