Olympus Has Fallen

R16

2013

119 mins

Directed by Antoine Fuqua
50%
66%
Action
Thriller

National security actioner from the director of Training Day, starring Gerard Butler as Mike Banning - a disgraced Presidential guard... More

National security actioner from the director of Training Day, starring Gerard Butler as Mike Banning - a disgraced Presidential guard who finds himself trapped in the White House when terrorists capture the building and kidnap the President (Aaron Eckhart). Also stars Ashley Judd as Mrs President and Morgan Freeman as second-in-command.

When the White House (Secret Service Code: 'Olympus') is seized by the shadowy group, Banning gets trapped within the building. As the authorities scramble to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President, and avert a nationwide disaster.

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Olympus Has Fallen | Ratings & Reviews

50_%199 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
66_%149,097 reviews
Audience score rating

"There's an obvious drinking game in Olympus Has Fallen: take a swig every time a hoary action dialogue cliché is uttered by one of the characters - "I'm the best chance you've got!"; He's in the walls!"; "Those tunnels were sealed years ago!" and so on. You'll be soused by act II."

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Flicks

"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 Olympus Has Fallen."

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Variety

"An orgy of bloody explosions that’d be tough to endure if it weren’t so inadvertently self-parodic."

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Total Film

"A deep supporting cast brings its A-game to the ridiculous dialogue."

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Time Out

"A typical slab of Hollywood action in which the White House crumbles under attack, the American flag is tattered and tossed aside by baddies, and clichés rise like gods."

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Los Angeles Times

"Generates a fair amount of tension and produces the kind of nationalistic outrage that rock-ribbed Americans will feel in their guts."

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Hollywood Reporter

"A grippingly brutal first act and strong cast can't stop this turning into a Steven Seagal film well before the end."

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Empire Magazine

"While Olympus Has Fallen breaks no major new ground in the political thriller genre, Fuqua has directed a sharp, very taut adventure that keeps you engrossed from start to finish."

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