Good concept, poorly executed.

Fantastic!

Absolutely amazing

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

First of all, any film that has a scene in which someone screams, "Nnnnnoooooooo!" automatically rates 1 star and has to work its way up from the cliché outhouse pit. Another cliché is opening scenes in which the characters are showed as the perfectly happy familial unit-something that can just be taken for granted and never makes good screen time. Another cliché common in action movie hogwash is the completely over-the-top and bombastic soundtrack.Flashbacks of the trauma scene? We got'em here! I guess that subtlety isn't a valued commodity in this sort of film.All of this corn came before the do-do hits the F-A-N.Second of all, any film with Morgan Freeman rates a 10. He could raise a German scat porn video to respectability. He enters in the first act so now the film is at 5. Where will it go from here?Huge amount of blood and gore, that's where. A conservative body count in the initial attack: 500 to 1,000. Cartoonish, very, very cartoonish.And then it gets, really, really stupid.In the initial shoot-out at the White House, why wouldn't the hero bend over and pick up a better weapon from one of the dozens of people he killed? How many clips does he take to work with him at his office? Do the film makers think we can't count?Agents keep pouring out of the front of the White House in the midst of 50. cal fire? What are they? Kamikazes?

This is a pure action film with a very clear one-dimensional story-line. There is a villain out to take the White House (Olympus) and a hero to avert him and save the POTUS. I would say that despite the simplicity of the story-line, the film is gripping, to say the least. There is a sense of urgency, a sense of foreboding cunningly crafted into the narrative which makes you root for the good guy. Gerard Butler is as usual the tough Secret Agent who cannot die or lose. I would have liked the other subplots (for example Butler's girlfriend) to have gotten more attention. This is not a serious film with a layered plot. It is a genre film with obvious plot holes and inconsistensies, but they hardly matter when the drama is so well enacted and tightly scripted. I would have rated it a score of 6.5 but the system doesn't allow that. Overall, a nice action film that delivers with grace.

'Olympus Has Fallen' is not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, but judging from the reviews was honestly expecting much worse. Even for taking it for it is and aimed to do, it could have been much better.This said, it is much better than its successor 'London Has Fallen'...now that was an awful film, with no obvious redeeming values, and one of the worst films from that year. 'Olympus Has Fallen' at least tried to be fun and has much better action scenes (such as the audaciously staged terrorist attack, all of the action in 'London Has Fallen' is routine at best).It also looks better, apart from some excessive shaky cam in places and the special effects are far from brilliant, in fact cartoonish and fake, but there is some atmospheric grit and the film is well shot instead of mostly looking like SyFy/Asylum fodder. With the exceptions of an annoying Melissa Leo and Aaron Eckhart phoning it in, the acting is not bad here with dignified Angela Basset and particularly Morgan Freeman giving the best performances. Gerard Butler does struggle with some of his one-liners, which honestly are not that good (pretty pithy actually) in the first place, but is a very capable action hero and charismatic lead. Rick Yune does his best, but his character is forgettable and very sketchy, like all the characters here. The direction at least has some tension.However, 'Olympus Has Fallen' goes for the fast, big and loud approach, sometimes that's not a bad thing but it didn't come off well here. The pacing is rather rushed often, while also losing momentum in crucial parts too, while the big and loud like its sequel is so constant there is little room to breathe and it becomes nauseating and repetitive in every way possible.Much of the script consists of pithy one-liners and cheesy quips that feel like clumsy attempts at humour, while also making little to no attempt at giving much personality or development to the characters (leaving the actors to do all the leg work and they mostly do credibly in that respect). The story is certainly not as intelligence insulting as that of 'London Has Fallen', but while it tries not to be too derivative of 'Die Hard' it is not that original and it outside of the action lacks suspense and proper excitement which are mistaken for lapses in logic and lack of suspense.All in all, not great, instead a mediocre film, but not as awful as expected. Even with its numerous flaws, if asked which is better between 'Olympus Has Fallen' and 'London Has Fallen' the answer is clear. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Olympus Has Fallen is another film that focuses more on action than on the script , at least the action scenes are fun to watch , plus the script sins with many errors , the steering gets far more in the course of the film he loses control , the cast is interesting , is Gerard Butler who is making more action films , he's fine , have Aaron Eckhart which is good, and the excellent Morgan Freeman 's fine too , the special effects are competent , the action scenes are good , the plot is simple , the soundtrack is average , you do not notice it much , Olympus Has Fallen is no better action movie in done, more is far from bad, the action scenes are cool. Note 6.9