London Has Fallen

LONDON HAS FALLEN

Director : Babak Najafi

Year : 2016

Genre : Action

Rating : **

In 1998, we had two comet movies. In 2012, we had two Alfred Hitchcock movies. And in 2013, we had two White House-under-attack movies; Roland Emmerich's fun and frantic 'White House Down' and Antoine Fuqua's decidedly darker and more serious 'Olympus Has Fallen'. Both weren't particularly great films but while 'White House Down' was met with marginally better reviews and proved to be more popular with audiences than it's thematically identical counterpart, it was Fuqua's straightlaced thriller that unfortunately got the sequel treatment. 

Set on the bustling streets (and in the underground) of our nations capital, Babak Najafi's 'London Has Fallen' once again sees Gerard Butler's super secret service agent Mike Banning facing off against innumerable faceless baddies when the Big Smoke falls victim to a number of carefully choreographed terrorist attacks. Despite some choice moments of guilty pleasure destruction and an enjoyably unhinged performance from Butler, the movie is all but assassinated by a dreadful script loaded with the same jingoistic nonsense of its 2013 predecessor, laughably atrocious visual effects that have the realism of a particularly naff Nintendo 64 game and seemingly endless and poorly choreographed action set pieces that ultimately bore than thrill.