[Originally posted on 3/05/16]
"Olympus Has Fallen" takes full advantage of the R-rating by having the highest body count and headshots ever seen in an action movie. The stabbings are brutal and gunfire roars almost nonstop. "London Has Fallen" follows in the similar, no-brainer footsteps.
This time in London, where world leaders on their way to the funeral of the British prime minister are assassinated in mass-coordinated attacks. While the first movie focuses the action inside confinement of the White House, it ups the scale here with dogged chopper and car pursuits. It is up to the head of the presidential security detail to know who to trust, protect, find escape routes, and eventually extract and rescue the leader of the free world from being publicly executed in front of the world.
In addition to a typical inside job, there's a surprise element here (implausible as it may be) with the Pakistan-based terrorists having embedded themselves in a network of police, military and emergency personnel.
Not much of a story, it's lean, violent and filled with explosions, enough to satisfy action fans.
DVD: http://tinyurl.com/londonhasfallendvd