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75
While Olympus Has Fallen breaks no major new ground in the political thriller genre, Fuqua has directed a sharp, very taut adventure that keeps you engrossed from start to finish.
75
It's that wonderful, totally unambitious yet satisfying thing, a really good movie.
63
Any semblance of seriousness and verisimilitude suggested by the marketing campaign is quickly forgotten once director Antoine Fuqua's enjoyably tacky Die Hard-on-the-Potomac gets under way.
60
Generates a fair amount of tension and produces the kind of nationalistic outrage that rock-ribbed Americans will feel in their guts.
60
Perhaps every generation gets the movie stars it deserves. “Olympus” has quite a bit to say about the current state of our country. Intentions aside, not all of it is entirely flattering.
50
The countdown-to-Armageddon structure generates almost no tension, but Olympus Has Fallen does have lots of squalidly bloody hand-to-hand action, all of which is so pulpy and standardthat the film actually makes you grateful for the presence of Gerard Butler, gnashing his teeth in the Bruce Willis role.
50
Butler serves the cause well, considering. Think that cause is a thankless one? Shhh, don't tell Secret Service agent Channing Tatum or president Jamie Foxx, headed your way in June with, yes, “White House Down.”
50
This is for those who like their political thrillers far-fetched, far-reaching and filled with pretty people.
35
Feels from start to finish like a throwback to the action cinema and military thrillers of decades past.
0
Olympus Has Fallen is no fun at all. To the contrary, it soon grows tedious, odious and oppressive.
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