Olympus Has Fallen Reviews
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)
A fiery pile of turdy dialogue, turgid action, and xenophobic boosterism for the frequently 'God bless!'-ed US of A. This movie's so stupid, the only suspense it offers is if your brain can avoid falling into a coma before the screen finally goes to black
3AW
Provided you can handle such deliberate over-kill in the chaotic swirl that goes on here, Olympus Has Fallen offers a super-sized serving of grit-tinged fantasy action guaranteed to satisfy those who don't mind splatter over style.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
In reinventing an old tale in a smart and engaging way, it's a thoroughly entertaining and often riveting way to spend two hours.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Rip It Up
With guns blazing and spouting one-liners, Gerard Butler revels in being the tough guy and leads a decent cast, with all-American Aaron Eckhart a worthy addition to the hallowed list of movie presidents.
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| Original Score: 3/5
2UE That Movie Show
Olympus Has Fallen is the stupid, dark fantasy of backward white trash America that needs another domestic threat to trigger war.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Spectrum (St. George, Utah)
Gruesome, cliché-ridden terrorist attack on the White House actioner has a lot of energy to go along with its relentless and well-choreographed carnage.
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| Original Score: C+
Triple J
t's a terrible action film but a brilliant piece of North Korean propaganda. The American characters act so stupidly that you're pretty much rooting for Kim Jong-un. THAT'S HOW BAD IT IS.
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| Original Score: .5/5
The Ooh Tray
There's a single line of dialogue that interrogates America's sanctions against some of the poorest people in the world. And who said this kind of thing couldn't be thought provoking?
Observer [UK]
The movie is preposterous, paranoid, solemn and - though not I think intentionally - something of a laughing matter.
Concrete Playground
What the studio's calling 'an action movie' - the Secret Service will call 'a comedy'.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Movie Talk
As bystanders get mown down, the Washington monument topples and the Stars and Stripes is shredded, the onslaught delivers a real taboo-busting frisson... the sequence would pack an even bigger punch if the CGI special effects weren't quite so cheesy.
ABC Radio (Australia)
Having stayed up much of the night to watch the hunt for, and ultimate take down, of Suspect 2 in the Marathon Bombings, it was particularly distressing to watch this vile abomination of a movie whose "relevance" only adds to its dishonor.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Birmingham Mail
Whether Hollywood is right to keep prodding North Korea simply because it's not a valuable trading partner, only time will tell.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Irish Times
Antoine Fuqua is a dependable action director whose talents will never be maximised while the 1980s continue to be over.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Contactmusic.com
As this massive blockbuster thriller progresses, it's impossible not to become amused by how ridiculous its script becomes.
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| Original Score: 3/5
This is London
Reactionary fantasy, then - but what else are action films for?
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Mail [UK]
Some will find it ridiculously entertaining. I found it entertainingly ridiculous. Either way, it's a guilty pleasure.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Express
Olympus Has Fallen may be pure Hollywood hokum but it remains tense, exciting and credible enough right through to the suspenseful climax, even if the dialogue is laughable at times.
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Skinny
A movie that looks like a Die Hard film, feels (sporadically) like a Die Hard film, but lacks the wit and coiled adrenaline that made that series' debut a classic.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Flicks.co.nz
Has more bloody on-screen deaths than any action film in recent memory.
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| Original Score: 3/5
