Saturday, March 9, 2024

Movie Review: "London Has Fallen" 02/25/16 UAE

This is a movie review for "London Has Fallen", first released in the United Arab Emirates on February 25, 2016.


I was going to do the review for "Angel Has Fallen" (viewed back in 2020) but then realized that there was actually a 2nd movie between "Olympus Has Fallen" and "Angel Has Fallen". I then decided that I would watch this before doing the movie review for the third movie of the series. I rewatched "Olympus Has Fallen" on March 7, 2024 (with a friend), and we watched "London Has Fallen" on March 8, 2024, so here's the movie review!





Trailer





Genre
Action, Thriller

Notable Cast


Alon Aboutboul ... Aamir Barkawi (as Alon Moni Aboutboul)
Waleed Zuaiter ... Kamran Barkawi
Gerard Butler ... Mike Banning
Aaron Eckhart ... Benjamin Asher
Radha Mitchell ... Leah Banning
Morgan Freeman ... VP Allan Trumbull
Charlotte Riley ... MI6 Jacquelin Marshall
Bryan Larkin ... SAS Lieutenant




Plot

It has been years since the attack on the White House. The Prime Minister of the UK has passed away, within 24 hours since a major surgery. Leaders of the world have been called upon to come to his funeral, including USA President Asher (much to Secret Services agent Mike Banning's chagrin, especially with his first baby due shortly). President Asher says that he should go since England/UK has been one of their biggest allies over the years, so the Secret Services come up with a plan to get him there and back safely. This is the most "protected" event of the world: what could go wrong? 






Rating Criteria

0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.

1/5 – Barely worth any time.

2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.

3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.

4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.

5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.


5/5 - *SPOILERS*
Honestly, this was just a great movie all around. The action, the music, the character development, etc - all superb. It was great to see Mike Banning (played by Gerard Butler) back in action again. He tells the President, at one point, that he hates funerals. Considering all that they had to go through because of a world leader's funeral, I don't blame him!

Banning goes above and beyond to protect and rescue the President, seeing through the fact that there is a mole in the MI6, using a drone (that is "always above the President") to relay messages to the USA when communications go down, and going almost kamikaze against multiple attackers to get to the President with minutes ticking down to his execution. The funniest thing is that the man made of "bourbon and bad choices" is the best choice to get the job done. Even when the MI6 [England/UK's version similar to the USA's CIA) say "hold on, we'll get the job done", Mike says no, it needs to be done now, no matter what. He's right - if he hadn't gone in right there and gotten the job done right, the President would have been executed on live stream on the Internet [we see screens in NYC, London, etc with his video showing]. When the President's time is almost up, he hears the captors say something about their power system and he knows that Mike is coming. {It is rather cute to see his reaction, knowing that Mike is on the way. Could be seen as a bromance, if you will. It isn't just the President and the bodyguard - it is friendship. It is also very tastefully done so I do not oppose it.} Mike shows up just in time, kicks a**, recovers the President, finds evidence to connect a bad guy (#6 on the top 10 most wanted list) to this situation, explodes the building, and still gets to walk out of there alive. Two weeks later, we see him cooing over his new baby [named after the late Lynne Jacobs, his old boss that was supposed to be the godmother but had been killed when their helicopter went down in the UK]. He debates on putting in his resignation but changes his mind when he hears Vice President Trumbull say that we need to continue on to protect our children. Of course, being the brand new daddy, Mike deletes his resignation letter and continues being in the Secret Services.


Oh, and to top it off, we find out that yes, the Prime Minister of UK was assassinated, so this whole thing was a trap to start off with to throw the world into chaos. Why they didn't wait to investigate after his death? I'm not sure but it definitely helped move the movie along - "short timing, let's get together to honor him!"

The mole in the MI6? Well, he did it because their security protocols were flawed and the world is in trouble, and lots of money. Was he justified in doing so? No, but it just goes to prove that criminal actions can be made by everyone, especially with the means and motivation to do so.



Anyways, that's my movie review! Thank you for reading. Do comment below.
More to come in the future (especially "Angel Has Fallen").





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