Basically a two
hour long advert for Gerard Butler’s career, this film, of which he is a
co-producer, sees him play Mike Bannon, a washed up bodyguard rotting away in
the U.S. treasury. When his president
falls apart by being taken hostage and all the president’s men get killed
trying to put him back together again it’s up to Mike to save the day the
American way, i.e. running around shooting everything, before nuclear
armageddon sets off.
Cue two long
hours of mindless violence where everybody tortures everybody else, but saves
the real humiliation for the top woman in the film who gets beaten up and damm
near stripped as the film seemingly tries to tell women that all their freedoms
only exist because of male sufferance.
Forget patriotism,
forget plot, forget Morgan Freeman or Aaron Eckhart, because this film isn’t
about any of those things. This film is
about how quickly Gerard Butler can kill North Koreans and how messy a process
he can make it. The other White House
gets taken down film this year, appropriately named White House Down seems just
as bad, though at least the plot is a little more plausible. So whatever you do, wait for that one to
come on Netflix or into the bargain DVD section. Don’t waste any money on Olympus has Fallen.
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