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London Has Fallen

2016

Babak Najafi

Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Jackie Earle Haley ...

4.8

10,077

Action. Thriller After the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances, all leaders of the Western world must attend his funeral. But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. The President of the United States, his formidable secret service head and the secret agent Mike Benning are the only people that have any hope of stopping it. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Lewis SFGATE	"You’ve seen everything on the screen before — many, many times. For every bullet, and you will lose count, there is a cliche"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Gets the job done (...) Butler manfully dispenses justice here many times over, and even if the other main actors are in it strictly for the paycheck, they've all been in a whole lot worse in their time"	POS
United States	Nick Schager IndieWire	"Brash, brutal, and simplistic in equal measure, it’s a retrograde work that, for better and worse, delivers its old-school mayhem with punishing precision and unrepentant glee"	POS
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"I don’t know the best way to deal with America’s enemies, but I suspect a jingoistic macho-porn slaughterfest is not likely to win hearts and minds (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Stephanie Merry The Washington Post	"'London Has Fallen' is remarkable only because of how much worse it is than ['Olympus Has Fallen'] its inane predecessor"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Babak Najafi (...) botches the action sequences so crudely, consistently and cynically that he makes Michael Bay look like Kurosawa (...) Rating: 0 (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"President Benjamin Asher needs two things: better security personnel and better scriptwriters."	NEG
United States	Robert Abele Los Angeles Times	"As long as there are enemies in Islamic lands, we'll probably have to endure risible time-wasters like London Has Fallen, designed to justify blinkered foreign policy attitudes"	NEG
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"'London Has Fallen' may just be the most daftly plotted action movie of recent years (...) a film that doesn’t so much invite you to switch off your brain as take it out and dump it in the nearest popcorn box (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG

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