Mike's Review: If you don't know the premise, this movie is about terrorist doing what they do, just this time it takes place at the White House. 'Olympus has Fallen' is your standard shoot them up, blow them up fun to watch good action movie. It has the one man saves the day type of plot and Gerard Butler does a good job of playing the lead. There are some of your typical over the top and unrealistic elements through out, but hey, its an action movie and it doesn't sugar coat the body count. I would say this was as good if not better then any other right guy, wrong place movie out there.
Best Scene: Rusty information extraction. Plus there were a few good hand to hand fights.
Mike's Rating: Worth the price of the ticket.
Bean's Review: Is Gerard Butler the next "lone wolf" action hero? We hope that realistically 'Olympus' does not fall quite as easily as portrayed in the movie. Butler was quite convincing as an ex-Ranger secert service agent. I would much rather see Butler in action movies such as the '300' and 'Olympus has Fallen' as opposed to the fluff romances. The villain was just evil enough to keep your attention and Butler's dialogue was reminiscent of the older (and better) 'Die Hard' movies.
Bean's Rating: Worth the price of the ticket.
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My vote for the best scene is everything that happens between the airplane flying towards DC until the WH is declared to have fallen. Very exciting and best bit of action I have seen in a movie in some time.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reviews..very enjoyable.
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