London Has Fallen

Plot synopsis:
The opening scene is set somewhere in Pakistan where terrorist mastermind and financier Aamir Barkawi (Alon Aboutboul) is reportedly responsible for a bombing in Europe. He is throwing a wedding celebration for his daughter at his compound. Barkawi talks with two of his sons about one of them finding a mole, a German agent, in one of their terrorist cells in Lebanon. When he learns that the mole had been killed, he tells his sons to be "absolute" with removing the threat (implying to not only kill the spy but kill the spy's whole family as well). As the celebration is underway, an informant working as one of the waiters leaves a text message to the United States government to Barkawi's location. The military located in Nevada launches a drone strike against it just as the informant leaves. The compound blows up, supposedly killing Barkawi along with his family.Two years later.President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and his top Secret Service agent/best friend Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) are jogging together near the White House in Washington (which is still recovering from the terrorist attack in the previous film). Mike returns home where it is revealed that he is currently expecting his first child with his wife Leah (Radha Mitchell). He is hoping to take some time off to spend time with his family and to finish setting up the nursery. She clearly becomes irritated by the number of security cameras in the room that he has installed.In Yemen, we see Barkawi is still alive (but walking with a limp), and he meets with his son Kamran (Waleed Zuaiter). They begin to set in motion plans for revenge.Back in Washington, Asher and Mike are both informed that the British Prime Minister James Wilson has recently passed away. They, along with Asher's staff, including now Vice President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) and Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs (Angela Bassett), travel to London to join all the other world leaders for Wilson's funeral. Believing it to be heavily secured, they are proven wrong when several mercenaries under Barkawi's commands initiate an attack, starting with a bomb destroying the Canadian prime minister's leader's limo. Soon, the mercenaries disguised as royal guards and police officers begin opening fire on civilians and other world leaders. The female German chancellor is killed by two assassins at Buckingham Palace before they are killed. The Japanese prime minister and his driver are killed on a bridge when two suicide bombers blow up both support spans and allowing the bridge to fall into the river. The Italian prime minister is killed with his mistress while standing atop Westminister Abbey. The French president is killed in his boat when another suicide bomber sails a barge containing explosives close to the boat. At St. Paul's Cathedral, Mike takes Asher and Jacobs with him to safety while shooting the mercs in the street.Quickly, the terrorists start to hit London's landmarks, including Big Ben and the Tower Bridge over the River Thames, setting off explosives that kill even more people. Mike, Asher, and Jacobs head into a chopper to safety. However, the terrorists launch Stinger ground-to-air missiles at the choppers, taking out the two security choppers before striking the presidential one. The presidential chopper crash-lands to the ground, resulting in Jacobs being fatally impaled. Before dying, she tells Mike to "make those fuckers pay". Mike and Asher then go on the run, while being chased by more assassins on motorcycles.Back in Washington, the president's staff sits in horror, fearing that their friends are dead. Mike attempts to contact Trumbull and send a message to let them know that he and Asher are still alive. He and the president are forced to venture to an underground station and after killing the terrorists pursing them, walk on foot through one of the abandoned metro tunnels. As Mike and Asher are running through the tunnels, Asher notes that the terrorists want him dead, and if it must come down to it, he orders Mike to kill him. Mike reluctantly agrees.Back in Washington, Trumbull and his staff receives a threatening call from Barkawi to let them know that he is out for revenge for the death of his family. They are informed that Wilson's autopsy report detected poison in his body, meaning he was intentionally murdered with the plan for all the world leaders to come together to be killed off.With the city on lock-down, Mike and Asher run to the home of MI6 agent Jacqueline "Jax" Marshall (Charlotte Riley), whom Mike knows well. Jax gets onto her computer and learns that Barkawi is behind the whole plot. She plays back a message from Trumbull confirming that they received Mike's message and are sending help. On the security cameras, the three see several armed men arrive in what is supposedly the Delta team there to rescue Mike and Asher, until Mike notices that the men are not sweating despite wearing heavy gear. They realize that the terrorists intercepted their message and are there to attack. The terrorists storm in and fire on the three. Mike shoots some of them and manage to kill all of them, with some help from President Asher. Mike and President Asher then take a car and drive through the streets until they are again ambushed by more terrorists, leading to their car being rammed by a truck. Despite being dazed, Mike manages to shoot and kill one of the terrorists who tries to finish him off, but Asher is abducted by the rest of the terrorists who then escape.Asher is taken to a private location where Kamran is setting everything up for him to be publicly executed. He punches Asher several times to make him suffer beforehand. Meanwhile, Mike is already on his way to rescue him with the real Delta team.The terrorists set up the cameras and broadcast it to every network around the world, so it's shown around places like Times Square. Kamran tells Asher to say some final words. Kamran readies his machete to decapitate Asher until Mike bursts in and shoots all but Kamran. He engages in a fistfight with Kamran and lets him know that no matter how many times enemies try to attack America, they'll still be there in a thousand years. Kamran manages to make a run for it. Mike orders the Delta team leader to blow the place up. Mike takes Asher and they jump down a shaft as the place goes up in flames, killing Kamran and the surviving terrorists. The Delta team finds Mike and Asher and reports to the staff that they're alive.Barkawi's compound is located in Yemen. Trumbull calls him to let him know that he's lost. Another drone strike is launched against Barkawi, and this time, he's taken out for good.Mike returns home and is spending time with Leah and their newborn child. He's looking at the letter of resignation to Asher he'd previously written. On TV, Trumbull speaks regarding the recent events, leaving an inspiring message that America will prevail. This convinces Mike to delete the letter.

Tags: comedy, murder, violence, good versus evil, humor, revenge

Review:
Whilst the original shocked (in particular the opening scenes) with a grandiose, beyond belief terrorist attack, London has fallen shocks with its stupidity, predictability, poor CGI, complete neglect for any realism (not a even a tad!) and tediously boring action scenes that would be more fitting for a new van dame movie.There's no need to break down this movie and pick it apart.
The plot is garbage - a bunch of terrorists blow up a crapload of stuff to kill world leaders attending a PM's funeral in London, and of course Gerard Butler is there and he has to save the day.
It could've been another mindless fun action movie and that's what I was hoping for, but the faults in London Has Fallen are too glaring to ignore.The script is dogsh*t, and that's putting it lightly.
...see, in an era of 12A action movies with tonnes of violence and no bad language, Butler dropping the F bomb a billion times ironically brings a level of realism to London Has Fallen, that is lacking in movies that take themselves far more seriously.Yes the entire concept is stupid, but that's not what we're here for.
Yes, in places the CG is a bit shoddy, but the movie is still quite spectacular in pulling off some big set pieces in London.London Has Fallen is mainly a two-hander between Butler and Eckhart, with some nice buddy moments and fantastic action sequences throughout, including a mega shoot-out at Somerset House, a mega shoot-out in the Underground, and mega shoot outs in dark buildings, including the finale in Soho, of all places.
This isn't going to get any Oscars, but it's a brilliantly retro action movie that takes itself far less seriously than throw-back action films like Taken, which is no less crazy in the plot department.Anyone who enjoys mindless action will not be disappointed, and where this movie lacks realistic plot, it makes up for it in pacing.
Gerard Butler stands on a level of his own, no decent actor should accept such role.I can't believe that I wasted any time of my life watching this.1 star, I wish I could give it a zero.
Indeed, it's not a real movie in the proper sense of the term, it's a propaganda campaign.a patriot secret service agent, Gerard butler, saving the life of his beloved president while fighting the bad guys with a beard and some black skin they call terrorists.Just take a look at it, it won't take long before you understand exactly what I mean.
but if you are a patriot and think that America is heaven, ready to give your life for your president, if you like closing your eyes while you're screwed by some politicians and if you think that everybody else who doesn't accept your opinion should die, then it might be the "movie" you 've been looking for..
This is a sequel to the successful movie "Olympus Has Fallen." The story begins in London, where the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances.
:) sadly that wont be happening , typical US propaganda movie , the "bad guys" do very well in the beginning but than its the usual , American superiority , its nearly ridiculous, the secret service seems to be completely clueless at 1st but than a few heroes safe the day , its disappointing for the realistic viewer, in real like nothing would play out the way it has been in this movie , and of course as usual the good and bad guys are reversed, i would only recommend this movie if you really bored , there are some neat spacial effects in there.
one of the worst movies i have watched, weak scenario, explosions like that application on the iPhone, RAMBO was back, add for that the childish imaging for the us president as the one who loves all the world.
surprised how Morgan Freeman accepted this scenario or this movie, anyway, sometimes you watched a bad scenario because there is some good work on action scenes , but this one neither a good story nor good scenes.
How on earth are movies like this made in 2016...All brown people bad and all White people good...this trash is war mongering , flag waving racist rubbish..i would imagine the average American person would be ashamed of this.Nothing works at all..they spent a few quid on a preposterous script and a few more quid on the ridiculous " Special" effects...nothing special about them...
they could have been done with a cheap computer app...and the acting is worse than bad.The lead is such a bad actor with little or no screen presence and the rest of the crew looked like extras....action sequences were totally ineffective I have an unlimited cinema pass and would have asked for my money back if I had paid for this rubbish.How on earth a movie like this could be made theses days is beyond me...in the week of the Oscars and movies like Joy..Spotlight..The Danish Girl..Revanant..etc..we get this tripe..incredibly bad..
There is so much wrong with this film, it is hard to know where to start; so its probably best just to summarise - its far fetched to the extent of being ridiculous, the plot is terrible, the script makes you cringe and the effects aren't up to much.
If you like films with plenty of action and no substance, this may be your thing; if not, I hope this review might help you save 99 minutes of your time..
When that trailer concerns itself with blowing London's most famous landmarks to bits and Morgan Freeman looking dreadfully concerned, you suspect that the movie is not going to bother the Oscars too heavily the following year.The Prime Minister of England has just died from a suspicious heart attack, the subsequent funeral in central London attended by rest of the world's leaders is a security conundrum of unprecedented scale.
The majority of leaders are killed in an attack on the capital apart from, surprise surprise, the US president Benjamin Asher (Eckhart), who is lucky enough to be defended by the most nauseatingly supercilious head of security in movie history, Mike Banning (Butler).
What follows is a meaningless chain of silly action sequences as the endlessly irritating Banning tries to return his employer to safety.Saying there are plot-holes in London has Fallen would unfairly suggest there is a plot, but the general narrative makes very little sense.
Morgan Freeman's implausibly predictable wise old man role is becoming a distinct bore, a step out of his safety zone becoming more and more necessitous as each film and identical character passes by.There is a sadly unsurprising miasma of xenophobia littered throughout the film with jaw-dropping dialog moments; 'Get back to F*ckheadistan or wherever you're from', made all the gloomier and surprising under the watch of Iranian director Bebak Najafi.Considering the movie was blatantly constructed entirely around the scenes of London's destruction, a surprising amount of the visual effects are mediocre; the Thames water dispersion from the Chelsea bridge bomb blast in particular has the mis-scaled feel of the Warlords of Atlantis squid attack.There really is no excuse for this kind of garbage any more.
Olympus Has Fallen may not be one of the great action movies of all time, but I enjoyed it's over the top tone and Gerald Butler still makes for a good action hero.
It also kept most of the story confined to the White House, which gave a tighter surrounding and even a tad more intimidating.The basic rule to make at least a passable action movie is to start off with a small bang, then let the scenes build from small to bigger before finishing off on the final large bang.
People like Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman feel misused and are given zero chance to do something new with their characters.If the people behind London Has Fallen were given this chance to make a sequel to a sleeper hit, why did they do the same story all over again?
To start, if you think you're going to be watching a summer movie blockbuster that's 10/10 than you don't have a great judgement on films.
This movie is extremely good all the way through just as it's predecessor "Olympus Has Fallen" was & is.WARNING: Can't go by IMDb negative reviewers; are often bogus & mere sabotage onslaughts.Gerard Butler is generally always good in anything he does.
When a movie becomes a surprise hit, as the White-House-under-attack-and-President-in-danger actioner "Olympus Has Fallen" did in 2013, earning $160 million worldwide on a budget of $70 million, a sequel often follows.
Movie Fans (especially those who liked the original), can only hope that "London Has Fallen" (R, 1:39) follows the rules of a successful sequel – and it does partially.
Protected by the seemingly super-human agent Banning, POTUS is on the run in a dark and decimated London, with Barkawi threatening to capture him and kill him slowly live on the internet."London Has Fallen" is a half-way decent action flick which makes reasonably good use of modern international threats in its plot, but also represents some of the worst pitfalls of the action genre.
"London Has Fallen" will pump up your adrenaline and your patriotism, but a thinking-man's action movie, this is not.
So I watched that yesterday and I liked it, fun action movie with some noticeable flaws.Today I went to see London Has Fallen and I liked it better than the first one.
The action scenes were a bit better than the first and more intense, the lighting and cinematography improved quite a bit compared to Olympus and the scale was bigger.To get a little more in depth on certain matters that I liked: Gerard Butler is made for this role, he makes for a very likable action hero that gets the job done.
He did that in Olympus and now in this one he did it a bit better I think.The rest of the actors also do a good job, nothing really great but I got why everyone of them had a motivation to be there.As I said the action was better than the first and with that I mean there is a good build up and when it starts I was invested in the scenes and wanted Gerard Butler to kick ass.There are some issues with it though.
"London Has Fallen" is a non-stop action film with great cast, impressive special effects and scenes of destruction.
Olympus Has Fallen so much exceeded expectations at the box office so it only makes sense a sequel follows.Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is now expecting his first child and looking to resign from his Secret Service duties protecting the president.
You do have big names in secondary roles like Morgan Freeman or Angela Bassett but the script is made for Butler to do the most work.The only thing the film does really well is depicting London as the setting.
Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart both play their characters so well it was better than Olympus has Fallen...although i loved that film also.
The producers and writers to this movie must of been having a real bad day.I sat and watched London Has Fallen last night and it was more like watching Rambo in a suit.Mike Banning Aka #Gerrard Butler must be bullet and bomb proof.
Anyway, this was the kind of movie where you see Mr. Testosterone blast and kill with his M-47 machine gun as if he were in this high intensity video game, where "the bad guys" (in this case, Arabs) come at him a billion at a time, for ten full minutes.
It's been a good three years and the R-rated, action-packed "Olympus Has Fallen" has faded from most minds, even the consumers who saw the film such as myself.
However, that's not going to stop Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman from returning to stop a band of heavily armed terrorists, who have blown every historic landmark in the British capital to smithereens, by instilling the insurmountable power of the red, white, and blue up their asses like they're Red Foreman after a bad Fourth of July cookout.This time, however, instead of America being under attack, London is the target for a series of numerous bombings and strategic attacks during the time a funeral for the British Prime Minister is underway.
"London Has Fallen," as a result, turns its action sequences into some of the strongest I've seen since "Final Destination 5," in terms of visual clarity and sheer intensity.During the entire terrorist attack sequence, I was thoroughly enjoying the film as fairly basic but competent entertainment.
While I won't be one of the people to claim a New World Order agenda embedded within the screenplay of a new action film, I will be the one to claim that the personal politics, in addition to the lunacy between Butler and Eckhart throughout the whole film, work to take a simple, effective premise and effectively limit its potential by making it silly and overreaching."London Has Fallen" doesn't need to be a political sermon, but it sure wants to be.
The review simply said, "This is the movie playing on every screen in Hell." Well, move over Hudson Hawk because I think London Has Fallen may have taken your place.I realize that actors need a paycheck and this was clearly THAT or they never would have agreed to the awful blather that was written for them.
With this sequel however, 'London Has Fallen' has fallen short on my expectations that doesn't reach the high quality that was established in Olympus, not too say that it's bad as last year's 'Fan4tisc' but it failed to reach the expectations and became a half-arsed sequel.Taking place years after the hostage scenario at the White House (though I feel it doesn't connect to it as much), we see that the US President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and his friend/top Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) are living life smoothly with Banning expecting to be a father in weeks time with his pregnant wife due for their first child, and wishes to be there for both of them to be a caring and good provider.
The action this time around is a bit more but I felt that the film was rushing itself to get to the next set-piece, it felt more of a chase movie rather than a hostage scenario like Olympus did and hell even the first Die Hard but there's not much to care for since this is a popcorn flick.What's bad?
The plot itself wasn't strong and I was hoping it would carry the elements established in Olympus, there's not much to care for the characters besides the leading character and the ending of it seemed rushed and lazy (even in its stunt work).Overall, LHF is either a film you will like, hate or even feel left out after the credits but this sequel was so-so but it was made to lazily and cheap that it should have been made as a direct to DVD movie.
Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) has a feeling something is wrong when the President (Aaron Eckhart) has to attend funeral in London, with all the World Leaders gathered around.
This is really eerie,a city like London being overrun with terrorists and all its monuments getting blown up.I don't like this movie.At all.Olympus has fallen was a decent action flick that should have left these thinly developed characters well enough alone.Nobody ever,ever asked for a sequel.That movie wasn't meant to be continued.Somehow,Morgan Freeman,Robert Forster and Gerard Butler agreed to return to this movie.Obviously it is strictly for the paycheck.Feel sorry for Freeman,he is so much better than this garbage.If you want to make a terrorism movie,then make it.But why be so xenophobic?
just once i would like to watch a movie where the American is the bad guy and he is the terrorist ...
I'm not sure why a all the bad reviews but I can safely say that this movie was incredible!!!..the plot was good and the action second to none..Gerrard Butler remains one of the best action and all around great actors of our time..Definitely one for the catalog.
Next time if thinking of making this kind of Movie better ask your Government if in real life they have guts to do this, They will better tell you what Pakistan is Capable of here are some films that have you asking one simple question: are they entertainment or propaganda?
Never the less, the "retrograde, stab the bad guys heads" attitude of the film is a gleeful hearkening back to the less politically correct times of 80's/90's ear Arnie movies, and it gets down to the often vicious violence, satisfying baddie kills and hard action with little pretense and less respect for human life or morality, and sometimes this is exactly the sort of cinematic junk food you need, not good for you at all but certainly hits the spot.
Great film, not just for Americans but all fans of classic action movies.
So too have terrorists.TWO things you'll LIKE about "London Has Fallen": The action is fun and loud.
A sense of fun.London has Fallen, is not as good as the first movie, but crams in a great dose of action in its 99 minutes run time.
Morgan Freeman's first appearance, meeting Butler in the White House, looks as if it was filmed separately from the rest of the movie.Director Babak Najafi does a great job with the action, especially with a one take action scene in a London Alleyway.
If you saw Olympus Has Fallen you certainly think it was a pretty enjoyable action movie to watch which makes the sequel worth watching.