London Has Fallen

After the death of the British Prime Minister, United States President Benjamin Asher - along with his staff and Secret Service agents headed by Mike Banning - heads to Great Britain to join dozens of world leaders at the Prime Minister's funeral. What they and the other world leaders don't realize is the trap being set for them by an old enemy looking for revenge for the death of his family - Aamir Barkawi. Mike Banning sees the danger and works to save President Asher before he can be assassinated along with the other world leaders.

London Has Fallen...so many jokes, so little time.

If you've seen Olympus Has Fallen (you can read my review here), then you pretty much know what you're getting into with this hard-hitting, fast-paced sequel. It's basically the same story, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) has to save the President from being assassinated on live television by terrorists. The only real difference is the movie takes place in London instead of Washington D.C. It's still a great movie, if you're like me and into action flicks where you can check your brain at the door and not worry about it being a smart, Oscar-worthy level movie. Olympus Has Fallen was better overall, and I really don't think there should have been a sequel, but London Has Fallen was still a whole lot of fun. I just hope there's not a third one called Russia Has Fallen or something similar.

There is one thing that bothered me as I was watching London Has Fallen: It's a movie that's rated R - and a pretty violent one at that - yet I saw several kids who couldn't have been much older than 5 or 6 in the theater. Now, I'm not one to tell parents how to raise their kids, but even I have to question what parents are thinking when bringing their young kids to a movie like that. It was the same way when I saw Deadpool awhile back. There were several really young kids in the theater. I'm not saying you absolutely have to wait for when they're 17 like the rating recommends (actually, now that I think about it, I think I'd go so far as to suggest that for Deadpool specifically), but 5 or 6 seems really young for a movie like this. I just want to urge parents to use caution before letting your kids watch something like this. For the rest of us, I would recommend seeing London Has Fallen. It really is a fun action movie.