London has Fallen (film) : A disappointing followup to "Olympus."

I hadn't expected to enjoy Olympus has Fallen but i actually did like it despite the fact that it was also, completely impractical. In London has Fallen they take the very far-fetched premise of getting past extreme levels of government security and stretch it from not just to one important building being held hostage, but an entire city.

I don't think it is terribly necessary to warn about spoilers because this is a Gerard Bulter action film and all of those are the same... but whatever... SPOILER ALERT

Really, I think that anyone who goes into this film feeling as though it is going to be anything intelligent or even remotely sticking to realistic scenarios is going to be disappointed. Olympus was pretty outlandish but London takes this to another level entirely.

The basic idea in the film is that someone very important who is British has died and all of the world's Prime Ministers and Presidents are coming at once to pay their respects. Of course this is a wonderful time for the terrorists to have a very well coordinated strike and teach the world a lesson.

I expected the film to be a bit unbelievable but the force that the baddies accumulate and once again, quite easily defeat all the London Police as well as the personal security details of all the world's nations, is more frustrating to watch than exciting. They are able to magically get superior firepower to these events that if there actually was an event like this would be so tightly controlled that no one would be able to get anything like that anywhere near it.

However, the only thing the baddies need in this film is to have a bogus police uniform and then everyone is just like ... "oh yeah sure, come on over.. I mean you are clearly a member of the police force.. bring that AK-47 with you too, it's fine... you are wearing yellow."

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That aspect of the film is extremely dumb as is the lack of a global response. Also, does London have no response unit or something? The whole city is just taken over so easily? Oh well, I never thought that the taking of the White House in Olympus would seem reasonable, but compared to this, it certainly does. The idea of the whole thing is ridiculous and empty but i suppose there are a couple of interesting fights but that is about it. The rest of the action in this movie is so unbelievably preposterous that it starts to get old and boring pretty quick.

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There are a lot of frustrating cinema crimes in this film but here are just a few:

• At one point the terrorists intentionally blow up important London landmarks even though doing so provides zero strategic advancement for their side.
• The security detail for all of the world leaders combined was maybe 60 guys. The baddies have a lot more. The "good guys" also only have small arms and no snipers, no swat team in reserve, no back up, nothing.
• All of the security other than Gerard Butler and a handful of others are horribly inept bullet-sponges
• The terrorists experience very little difficulty shooting down helicopters from rooftops with portable weaponry
• There's no military response team from any nation? Come on now. At one point the UK military wants to get involved but the police say "no, we got this" You clearly don't have it pal! Martial law would have been declared immediately
• It was exceptionally easy to hack all of London's electrical grid because you know, all that is controlled by a website or something apparently.
• All civilians in London immediately obey orders to stay in their homes. There is no panic in the streets... actually there is no one in the streets at all
• Bullet proof cars are knocked out of commission quite easily.... with bullets. In one particular scene a car window that has been shot i dunno, 50 times at that point, get's hit by a dude's body and he goes straight through it
• The Japanese Prime Minister is traveling in a Lexus with one guard / driver and no security detail at all.
• The French Prime minister arrives by boat... haha

There are many many more... to the point that this movie could be easily turned into a drinking game. Drink every time something completely impractical happens... better get a LOT of bottles.

This movie was basically just Olympus has Fallen but much more absurd. There is a 3rd one called Angel has Fallen and I have to say I am morbidly curious how they could possibly make a film more fundamentally flawed than this one but I gotta say, I'm gonna watch it anyway.

I think you can enjoy this film if you approach it expecting to have some fun with the completely silly events that happen here and just kind of accept the fact that this is just a movie where everyone is pretty much useless except for Gerard Butler.

If you want a film that has some element of realism, a bit of a story that isn't completely predictable, or maybe somewhat of a life lesson or a compelling storyline..... this is not the right movie for you.