Olympus Has Fallen Reviews
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
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.
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
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
Flicks.co.nz
Has more bloody on-screen deaths than any action film in recent memory.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Little White Lies
Butler hardly knocks it out of the park, but he steals the film. And what a film...
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| Original Score: 4/5
Daily Telegraph
It rattles along with no little vim, and there is one excellent joke about the difficulty of finding a computer's hash key when time is tight.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Top CriticThe thrills and the effects are cheap, but this is in hard-driving, good-humoured command of its own silliness.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Birmingham Post
Fuqua lights the fuse on the summer blockbuster season with an almighty, ground-shaking bang.
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| Original Score: 6/10
TheShiznit.co.uk
Once the film stops taking itself too seriously and gives in to over-the-top entertainment, it becomes a vastly superior movie - albeit one with some head-shakingly stupid moments.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Digital Spy
The movie's best moments belong to Gerard Butler though, thriving in a role that's perfect for his capabilities as he establishes a hero we can't help but root for.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Scotsman
I'd rather have Butler getting shot at than treating women like silly hens in Playing For Keeps.
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| Original Score: 4/5
HeyUGuys
Olympus Has Fallen is just riotously entertaining, and although nothing particularly new or original, it manages to keep you captivated and takes the viewer on one hell of a ride.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Total Film
An orgy of bloody explosions that'd be tough to endure if it weren't so inadvertently self-parodic.
Daily Star
After the dull last Die Hard, this all-American slice of hokum is the gung-ho blast action fans have been craving.
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| Original Score: 4/5
