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Rating: 7 stars

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NWI white house president of the united states terrorist siege soldiers secret service rescue helicopter

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Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

Directed by Antoine Fuqua

Action | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria, JohnPeel, jcdeleon1, PeterMartin, squeegull, noahphex, seanCduregger, schofizzy, danielt

Overview

When the White House (Secret Service Code: “Olympus”) is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning’s inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.

Rated R | Length 120 minutes

Actors

Gerard Butler | Aaron Eckhart | Finley Jacobsen | Dylan McDermott | Rick Yune | Morgan Freeman | Cole Hauser | Radha Mitchell | Angela Bassett | Melissa Leo | Phil Austin | James Ingersoll | Freddy Bosche | Lance Broadway | Sean O'Bryan | Keong Sim | Kevin Moon | Malana Lea | Robert Forster | Sam Medina | Ashley Judd | Mike Snyder | Josiah D. Lee | Edrick Browne | Sean Boyd | Hunter Burke | Aonika Laurent | Jace Jeanes | Sione Ma'umalanga | Tory Kittles | Shane Land | Shanna Forrestall | Ian Casselberry | Dorothy Deavers | Amber Dawn Landrum | Han Soto | Kenneth Wayne Bradley | Bill Stinchcomb | Michelle Celeste Assil | Met Salih | Darrell L. Connerton | Terry Dale Parks | Michael Stallings | Elliott Grey | Hamish Macdonald | Lawrence O'Donnell | Rick Chambers | Scott Walker | Catherine Shreves | Arnold Chon | Lewis Tan | J.J. Perry | Simon Rhee | Ron Yuan | David Joseph Martinez | Andy Cheng | Steve Kim | Danny Le Boyer | Woon Young Park | Ho-Sung Pak | Philip Tan | Stephen Oyoung

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Wanted to revisit this before going to see ANGEL HAS FALLEN. Haven’t seen since I saw in theater and forgot how incredibly violent that initial takeover of the Whitehouse is. Damn. Of course most of the action is over the top yet it’s fun to suspend belief that this one ex-secret service agent has the means to do all that and save the world. I like Gerard Butler in this role and I like Aaron Eckhart portraying how a real president should be and act. The really did Ashley Judd dirty here but I get it. Also wish Rick Yune wasn’t the bad guy.

Anyways, I believe my opinion has softened and I have more appreciation for how nuts they went with this film. Now I want to revisit LONDON HAS FALLEN if I can get the Blu from the library.

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