Even though I didn’t enjoy Olympus Has Fallen, I still watched London Has Fallen because I’m a completist. Please remind me to stop if this “Has Fallen” franchise continues. At least Olympus Has Fallen had Antoine Fuqua and Melissa Leo as assets, but Leo only appears for seconds, and Fuqua refused to direct this movie, which damn. Babak Najafi, the director of Proud Mary, directed London Has Fallen so……
London Has Fallen believes in a world where all the world leaders actually raise their children and are super chill with their underlings so that we’ll like them and hate the bad guy who will try to execute them all as soon as possible thus leaving the movie with a gaping maw of unmemorable attacks. Please look into pacing. Gerald Butler and Aaron Eckhart are basically in these streets trying to stay alive because only Americans can survive. Um, the UK is historically good in emergencies, especially terror attacks, so I just could not buy that Americans would be the Highlanders in this movie. When is someone going to admit that this franchise would be more comfortable with Morgan Freeman holding the reins of power, and there is clearly a coup to kill Eckhart. I did not appreciate completely wasting Angela Bassett.
Even if you like empty action films, London Has Fallen is not fun, dreadful and soulless. The villain is brown and an arms dealer so he is bad and has no ideology, but it isn’t a generalized thing for bad guys to behead people on the internet so I feel like they just made a grab bag of bad guy brown things and mushed it together. I’ve already given this plot more thought that it deserves.
I’m thinking of implementing a new rule: don’t watch films if Gerard Butler is one of the headliners. I used to think that he was pretty, but he is not what he used to be because time is cruel to all of us, and he is certainly not pretty enough to stomach this garbage. Get money, but not from me. Waste her time 2018.
London Has Fallen is not even worthy of a hate watch. Skip it and save your 99 minutes for a more worthy task, which would be any and all others.