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A pornographically violent crapfest, “Olympus Has Fallen” took the standard “Die Hard” template and placed it within the confines of a White House under attack by Korean terrorists, and attempted to use such sights as the White House in flames, hundreds of bodies on the front lawn, and the female Secretary of Defense being brutally beaten as inspiration for the ensuing cacophony of shootings, stabbings, neck-breakings, and quips delivered by star Gerard Butler. It was a truly heinous piece of work, and it wasn’t even the best “Die Hard” knock-off set in the White House that was released in 2013—the Channing Tatum/Jamie Foxx vehicle. “White House Down” was a vastly superior film that didn’t leave you feeling like you needed to take a shower afterward—but, presumably as a result of the fact that it was released first, it was the more commercially successful of the two films. Consequently, we now have “London Has Fallen,” an awful and utterly unnecessary sequel that may even be worse than its predecessor in terms of quality.
In our story’s opening scene, our hero, Mike Banning (Butler), the personal Secret Service agent assigned to guard President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart), is considering resigning from his position in order to spend more non-lethal quality time with his wife (Radha Mitchell) and their unborn child when duty calls once more—the Prime Minister of London has died suddenly, and Asher is to accompany Asher to the funeral, which will be attended by nearly every leader of the free world. During the funeral procession, however, a series of coordinated attacks begins, involving bombs, rocket launchers, and hundreds of dummy police officers mowing down people on the streets. The attacks allow viewers to witness most of London’s iconic buildings blown to smithereens and presumably thousands of people—including the leaders of France, Canada, Italy and Japan—killed in a variety of gruesome ways. Because of Banning’s decision to move President Asher’s arrival ahead of schedule, they are able to escape and even survive a crash landing when Marine One is shot down—possibly the only time in the film when something crashes and does not immediately burst into flames, aside from the film itself.
Aamir Barkawi (Alon Aboutboul), a Middle Eastern terrorist who, according to Vice-President Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), has “killed more people than the plague,” is responsible for all of this destruction. (Ironically, this only earns him a #6 ranking on the Most Wanted list; what does an international criminal have to do these days to crack the top five?) After ordering a drone strike on Barkawi a couple of years earlier, Asher found himself in the middle of a wedding reception, which turned out to be the wrong location. Despite the fact that Asher was likely killed in the initial strike, he is so determined to exact revenge that he has devised a Plan B that involves capturing his adversary and broadcasting his execution to the entire world on the internet. During the time that Trumbull and the cabinet are attempting to figure out how to extract Asher, Banning is attempting to keep him out of harm’s way with the assistance of Jacquelin Marshall (Charlotte Riley), a spunky MI-6 agent who is determined to figure out who is the agency’s mole who helped allow the attacks to happen—a difficult task given that virtually every British government, police, and intelligence worker is either a vile traitor or a clueless idiot in the movie
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Whatever the flaws of “Olympus Has Fallen,” the film did at least have a sense of unity in its mission. It was determined to depict the White House as being subjected to a full-scale assault in the most obnoxious and gruesome manner possible. By contrast, “London Has Fallen” appears to have started out as just another tired “Die Hard” knockoff that the producers came across in a pile of unproduced scripts and awkwardly rejiggered into a sequel with little thought or effort on the part of the filmmakers. In any case, it explains why so many cast members from the original, including Freeman, Mitchell, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, and Melissa Leo, have been shoehorned into the proceedings without being given anything significant to do. It certainly appears to be uninterested in its own equally obnoxious premise, which is odd. If you’re going to see it primarily for the chance to see some of London’s most famous landmarks in action, you should be aware that after the major assault early in the proceedings, the locations shift away from the familiar facades and into largely anonymous streets and building spaces that only barely disguise the fact that the majority of the film was actually shot in Bulgaria. If you’re going to see it primarily for the chance to see some of London’s most famous landmarks in action, you should be aware that after the major assault
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Unfortunately, some of the most heinous characteristics of the original film have been carried over into the remake. Once again, the level of violence is completely out of control. While there is nothing quite as gruesome as the aforementioned beating of the Secretary of Defense, the sheer number of people who are gunned down, blown up, or stabbed in the head becomes a little sickening after a while, and this is even before taking into consideration the idea of watching a cartoonish entertainment along these lines so soon after the attacks on Paris last fall are taken into consideration In addition, the film attempts to punctuate every violent sequence with a quip of some sort, but fails so miserably that it only serves to add an additional unpleasant edge to the proceedings. Example: After the president, who has been hidden in a room for safety, bursts out to shoot a terrorist who has the upper hand on Banning, the latter responds by saying, “I was wondering when you were coming out of the closet.”
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The fact that “London Has Fallen” will no doubt gross more money at the box office in its opening weekend than Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups” will gross over the course of its entire run is too depressing to even contemplate. “London Has Fallen” is nothing more than proof that Gerard Butler can make movies that are even worse than “Gods of Egypt” (not that this should be encouraged). The vast majority of people would be far better served staying at home and finally watching “White House Down,” unless they have some insane desire to see what will almost certainly go down as one of the very worst films of 2016.
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