Olympus Has Fallen Review

      The White House set ablaze is one of the most unforeseen images ever thought imaginable. This is your basic terrorist take over story with a twist, the twist being the white house and the destruction of our capital Washington D.C. The story follows a  man who's in the secret service and from an accident gone bad, gets thrown out of the secret service by the president himself who happens to be friends with our hero named Mike Banning. During the attack, he finds his way into the White House and uses his inside knowledge and skills to rescue the presidents son and the president himself while working with  national security as well. Everyone knows he will succeed in this mission because the good guys always win and United States does not negotiate with Terrorists.

       Banning is played by the one and only certified bad ass Gerard Butler. This film also stars Aaron Eckhart as the president of USA and Morgan Freeman as the speaker of the house.  Butler is known for his best role as Leonidis from 300 and Eckhart is known best for his role as two face from Batman Dark knight series. Morgan Freeman's been in the game so long that it's truly a sad thing if you don't know who he is, but in case, he's played many roles one most notable from the film Deep Impact.
This film was Directed by Antoine Fuqua, who is notable for the films Shooter, Training Day, Tears of the sun and many others. This Film was released March 22nd 2013 and is 122 mins long and is a Rated R film due to his heavy violence and killing throughout from beginning to end. I would easily say this is a hard core action film with a good backstory to it as well.

       So Gerard butler is definitely the bad ass in this film from the beginning to the end. From the very beginning of the film, he's training the president in boxing and we can tell how swift he is as a fighter. During the film later on, we realize by finding out, he's the best the secret service has because he's a ex ranger and that alone just speaks for itself. I feel he was good for this role because Butler has a soft yet crazy look to him like you can say he's a cool romantic type but he's seen things and he's done things in the name of survival so he definitely has a dark bad side to him. Another thing about this film that I've noticed is that the terrorists are from Korea. It's nice to see that film's are no longer depicting Islamic people with terrorism. I think this would have something to do with the current world tensions of Korea and the DMZ. But one thing this movie also shows is a almost full proof plan on how to take over the capital. Truly a great film indeed with a great assembled cast and good story with plenty of special effects and fight sequences, I would highly recommend watching this film.