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Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus has fallen, a movie directed by Antoine Fuqua however it seems like to the public that all that this movie has brought to the table is another die hard film, but inside the White House instead. The movie plot is so, the president ( Aaron Eckhart) and his wife are on their way to a charity party when an accident occurs, and Mike Banning (Gerald Butler), the presidents guard fails to save his wife. Almost 18 months later the president meets with some important South Korean officials to discuss tensions occurring between north and south korea, while Mike is working for the presidents treasury, however the discussion is cut short as the White house is attacked, and the president is brought to a safe underground bunker with the south korean officials while the assault just outside is occurring. The president is then captured by who he had believed to be his allies, the fake south korean officials . Now the president, and his staff are held hostage ,and Mike is the only one left to save the president and his country. The movie was released on March 22, 2013 and is rated mature (R). The movie seems to go well at times with some realistic feel at times, however it strains from that path to simply everything pretty much blowing up. However, Gerald Butler does play his role int he movie well always being the kind of dude that kicks but and gets the job done. One interesting things about this movie is that of the realism of the tensions between north and south korea. All in all this movie could go either way being at about the midpoint. The review webpage called, "rotten tomatoes" gave the movie a 49% sating that it had little originality to it which can be considered true since a similar movie was also released in the same month of this movie, but the audience review was a decent 79%. So to some it up Olympus has fallen is a movie that does amazing in some aspects, but poor in others and if your that is a kind of person that prefers a nonfiction movie to a fiction movie then this would be a movie that probably wouldn't interest you all that much.
