Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

RoboRabbit89 Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckartt are superb in"Olympus Has Fallen."Let me start by saying that this is a good action movie. It reminds me of the action movies from the '80's and '90's, with it's adrenaline pumping suspenseful opening to it's nail biting finish, this movie delivers.This may contain some spoilers.Mike banning is a secret service agent, part of the United States President's detail.But after Mike fails to save a loved one,he is demoted to desk duty. But now that's all about to change, one year later the white house is soon under attack by terrorist, killing all the service agents and it's up to Mike to save the day and take out the trash.The action scenes are spectacular, and it's nice to see an action movie with some character development.Morgan Freeman was good as Vice President Trumble, all his scenes are mostly in the Pentagon, but he was great.Aaron Eckartt was also good as the President, he didn't do very much because he was tied up for most of the movie but he was still good.Gerard Butler is very good as Mike Banning the hero of the film, it's great to see him kick ass in this, all his fight scenes and funny one liners were spot on.Ashley Judd has a very small roll in this as the President's wife but even though her part was small I liked her scenes.This film is directed well by Antwone Fuqua probably his best next to The Equalizer, He just did a damn good job.Rick Yune is great as the main baddie of the film, I haven't seen him in very much but this by far is his best work yet.Overall I very much enjoyed it, and I own it on DVD, and it's sequel, London Has Fallen is just as awesome.If your an action movie fan I think you'll probably like it. Definitely give this one a look, you won't be disappointed.I give it a 7/10 Ii's one cool action flick.

Nadine Salakov I decided to check out Olympus Has Fallen again, i never watched it properly before and i never gave it a fair chance, there are some scenes that are too dark and just too much and those are the scenes where there is the threat of torturing people, what the hell is wrong with this director?? This is just supposed to be a blockbuster action flick, not Law Abiding Citizen part 2.Watching Olympus Has Fallen again has me appreciate how they did the action scenes, they put those scenes together perfectly.Even though the screenplay is 85% the same as White House Down, the latter is still a better movie overall. Olympus Has Fallen is dark visually and has that gritty vibe, if you like that then you'll love this movie, but gritty vibes should be in certain types of movies like crime dramas, not action flicks.I used to love the film score of this movie, but whether iv'e listened to it too much and got fed up of it or whether iv'e just outgrown it - i don't know, all i know about that is that the best part of the score is "The Full Package/Snowy Car Talk".Great performances, the bad guys are scarier than the bad guys from White House Down, but bad guy characters should not be the reason to decide how good a film is, everything needs to be taken into consideration.

sol- Marketed as "Die Hard in the White House", the plot of this action thriller has a lone Secret Service agent taking on North Korean terrorists who have invaded the White House (codename Olympus), holding the President hostage. The film features several gripping action scenes and some of the smaller moments (a bullet-ridden US flag) are very effective, however, the project would have benefited from all the 'Die Hard' parallels being far less pronounced. As it is, Gerard Butler sorely lacks the charisma Bruce Willis brought to the iconic 1988 film, there is significantly less comic relief, and try as Rick Yune does with the part, he is no Hans Gruber. Issues of credibility weigh heavily more against 'Olympus Has Fallen' too; whereas Willis only had to take on board a handful of terrorists in 'Die Hard', here Butler comes off almost without scratch after intense encounters with three or four times as many antagonists! To the film's credit, it does at least attempt to throw some character study in the midst with Butler haunted by an earlier incident in which he was able to save the President, but not his wife, in a road accident. Butler's rapport with the President's son feels very real too. Then again, the film never maximises the potential of Butler and the son knowing all the ins and outs and secret passageways of the White House. Butler's big advantage here is his training rather than his insider knowledge, which in turns renders the film far less interesting than it could have been even if there is a nary a boring moment in the action-packed ride.

851222 Greetings from Lithuania."Olympus Has Fallen" (2013) is one of the best action flicks from recent years. Sure it's nothing original or super good, but it does what it promises - it keeps you entertained for almost two hours, which never drags. Performances were good for this material, and action sequences were good as well - no wonder here, "Olympus Has Fallen" was directed by action pro Antoine Fuqua - one of the best genre directors in business.Overall, "Olympus Has Fallen" is pretty much "Die Hard" in a White House, but this one really works. It has cool energy to keep you involved. Good action thriller, by many moons better then it's poor and one note sequel.