Olympus Has Fallen Reviews

Butler's presence makes perfect sense. He's an empty, mindless vessel. Just like his movie.

Full Review | Original Score: F

What the studio's calling 'an action movie' - the Secret Service will call 'a comedy'.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Does anything say "patriotism" like a lovely marble bust of Abraham Lincoln, smashed over the head of a wounded terrorist?

Full Review | Original Score: * 1/2

Olympus Has Fallen is a serious take on a silly premise that strains believability and ultimately can't help being just another forgettable action flick.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Take away its swift kicks, severe stabbings, big explosions, and gory headshots and Olympus Has Fallen is just another cookie cutter action film with stale writing.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10

This ludicrous actioner strives to be as loud, violent, and patriotic as possible.

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Olympus Has Fallen is the stupid, dark fantasy of backward white trash America that needs another domestic threat to trigger war.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Antoine Fuqua is a dependable action director whose talents will never be maximised while the 1980s continue to be over.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

"Olympus" has a strictly director-for-hire vibe; anyone with access to a Roland Emmerich movie or two (namely "Independence Day") and a mad-libbed action script could have churned out something similar.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The picture is basically a ground-based version of "Air Force One" with a much higher body count.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

A big, boomy, flag-waving bash of lug-headed escapism.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

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?

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

I was concerned by the stupidity of almost every character within the film. If this is how their real life counterparts would act, we're all doomed.

Full Review | Original Score: C

It has to be a joke, right?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

The cheesy, jingoistic Olympus has all the freshness of a Sylvester Stallone vehicle from 1986 (and some of the special effects to match).

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Not the worst movie Gerry Butler's foisted on us in the last five years.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The cliché count is neck-and-neck with the body count in this hyperviolent and cheerfully destructive thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: D

It's derivative, it's cheesy, it's fantastically unconvincing, its patriotism unabashed, its politics reductive, its morals binary.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5