It is too easy to pick apart 'London Has Fallen', with its obvious political agenda, cheesy one-liners and predictable plot but I am going to stop short of saying that the finished product was an all out disaster. Once again it is the Hollywood Producers that should be held accountable for believing that this sequel to 'Olympus Has Fallen' needed to be made in the first place. Could it be that the conglomerate of production companies behind this movie have little regard for the intelligence of the average film punter, that they as the viewer cannot understand the underlying narrative that is being told to them? Or could it be that these 'big boys' just don't care and have a blind faith that there is a successful market still available to them? I really couldn't confidently answer these questions but I do know of one redeeming feature that 'London Has Fallen' does have going for it - it is entirely mind numbing violence where the audience can completely escape and not have to think about a thing. With this in mind, a couple of hours on a rainy afternoon was never going to hurt.
Well known action genre Director, Antoine Fuqua attached himself to the original, 'Olympus Has Fallen' and in his place is the little known Babak Najifi. Fuqua's expertise are sorely missed in this struggling sequel as Najifi tries his best to give the audience an experience that would justify the $60 million price tag that the producers forked out. Unfortunately this hefty budget could have been spent on something else. Babak has failed to connect his film with the viewer and perhaps he felt compelled to make such a production that is beyond the realms of believable (even in today's international climate) and lacks genuine purpose other than to give Gerard Butler something to do. All too rapidly 'London Has Fallen' becomes predictable, following a well travelled road that many action films of the past have followed. It is almost a throw-back to the 1980's when the audiences acceptance was far easier to obtain than it is today. People still enjoy the mindless violence as I do but there has to be substance behind it. The screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt is basic. It provides very little challenge for the more accomplished actors attached to the film and at times the script writers seemed to of run out of ideas.
Well known action genre Director, Antoine Fuqua attached himself to the original, 'Olympus Has Fallen' and in his place is the little known Babak Najifi. Fuqua's expertise are sorely missed in this struggling sequel as Najifi tries his best to give the audience an experience that would justify the $60 million price tag that the producers forked out. Unfortunately this hefty budget could have been spent on something else. Babak has failed to connect his film with the viewer and perhaps he felt compelled to make such a production that is beyond the realms of believable (even in today's international climate) and lacks genuine purpose other than to give Gerard Butler something to do. All too rapidly 'London Has Fallen' becomes predictable, following a well travelled road that many action films of the past have followed. It is almost a throw-back to the 1980's when the audiences acceptance was far easier to obtain than it is today. People still enjoy the mindless violence as I do but there has to be substance behind it. The screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt is basic. It provides very little challenge for the more accomplished actors attached to the film and at times the script writers seemed to of run out of ideas.
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