Movies

Olympus Has Fallen is yet an other US president oriented flick. A ton of action and special effects with almost as many logical flaws.The acting is good, particularly Morgan Freeman (to a lesser extent: Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart) and there's no denying the roller coaster ride, but it has many shortcomings. Aside from the usual suspension of disbelief, logic fails at almost every turn. Then there's the poor dialogs, the easy retorts, the one dimensional underdeveloped characters, the incredible body count, and the overly flag-centric pride.It's action based entertainment for sure, but not much else.

What a dumb, fun, entertaining movie this is. There really is no real story in this movie, other than an attack on the White House. Then it's just straight up "Die Hard" after that, and it's so beautiful to finally get to see a good "Die Hard" movie again. Gerard Butler plays Mike Banning, who is basically just British John McClane. And then we have Aaron Eckhart as Benjamin Asher, the POTUS and Morgan Freeman as Allan Trumbull, the public speaker. They are very good too. This is just a very dumb action movie, and those are the kind of movies that I really love to watch.

I guess this is what most people would consider a popcorn movie, not lot of substance but bit of fun and excitement.I think that would be a pretty fair assessment.The cast is good, with Butler providing all the parts needed for this type of hero.White House Down came out at basically the same time and is basically the same movie, of the 2 I do prefer this one.Olympus is exactly what you expect it to be, its good fun :)