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Olympus Has Fallen

2013

Antoine Fuqua

Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett ...

5.3

20,923

Action. Thriller When a korean terrorist mastermind kidnaps the President of the United States Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and holds the White House hostage, disgraced former Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) finds himself trapped within the building. While the national security team attempts to respond, it’s up to Mike to use his experience and inside knowledge to help the security team take back the White House, rescue the President and take ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A North Korean terrorist may be responsible for taking the president hostage, but it’s Bulgarian-made CGI that does the most damage in Antoine Fuqua’s intense, ugly, White-House-under-siege actioner"	NEG
United States	Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer	"Any semblance of seriousness and verisimilitude suggested by the marketing campaign is quickly forgotten once director Antoine Fuqua's enjoyably tacky Die Hard-on-the-Potomac gets under way (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kyle Smith New York Post	"This unapologetic B-movie at least keeps the action rolling, and the time goes by quickly. To put it another way, I’d rather see Gerard Butler stab a terrorist in the neck than flirt with Katherine Heigl (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A bloody, tense and generic return of the let's-assault-America action genre (...) Olympus is like an '80s or '90s genre item in which Clint Eastwood, Bruce Willis or Mel Gibson"	POS
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"A nitwit extravaganza that makes you long for the intellectual depth of Independence Day"	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It may be too much to ask for anything more, but, on the other hand, if you’re going to go to the trouble of pretending to blow up the White House, you might also want to pretend that something was at stake"	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"This is for those who like their political thrillers far-fetched, far-reaching and filled with pretty people (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU

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