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Olympus Has Fallen

  • 20132013
  • RR
  • 1h 59m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
275K
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POPULARITY
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Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, and Gerard Butler in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
Disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack; using his inside knowledge, Banning works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.
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Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.Secret Service agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a terrorist attack and works with national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
275K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,993
156
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Antoine Fuqua
    • Writers
      • Creighton Rothenberger
      • Katrin Benedikt
    • Stars
      • Gerard Butler
      • Aaron Eckhart
      • Morgan Freeman
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Antoine Fuqua
    • Writers
      • Creighton Rothenberger
      • Katrin Benedikt
    • Stars
      • Gerard Butler
      • Aaron Eckhart
      • Morgan Freeman
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 860User reviews
    • 384Critic reviews
    • 41Metascore
    • Awards
      • 1 win & 5 nominations

    Videos7

    Exclusive Debut
    Trailer 0:39
    Exclusive Debut
    U.S. Version #1
    Trailer 2:34
    U.S. Version #1
    "What If"
    Featurette 1:32
    "What If"
    "Patriotic"
    Featurette 2:03
    "Patriotic"
    "The Cast"
    Featurette 1:50
    "The Cast"
    "Angela Bassett"
    Featurette 1:48
    "Angela Bassett"
    "Action"
    Featurette 1:14
    "Action"

    Photos190

    Morgan Freeman and Angela Bassett in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Gerard Butler in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Antoine Fuqua in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Gerard Butler and Radha Mitchell in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Aaron Eckhart and Gerard Butler in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Ashley Judd and Aaron Eckhart in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Angela Bassett, Aaron Eckhart, Robert Forster, Gerard Butler, and Finley Jacobsen in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Aaron Eckhart in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Robert Forster in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Rick Yune in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Gerard Butler in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
    Morgan Freeman in Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

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    Gerard Butler
    Gerard Butler
    • Mike Banning
    Aaron Eckhart
    Aaron Eckhart
    • President Benjamin Asher
    Morgan Freeman
    Morgan Freeman
    • Speaker Trumbull
    Angela Bassett
    Angela Bassett
    • Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs
    Finley Jacobsen
    Finley Jacobsen
    • Connor
    Dylan McDermott
    Dylan McDermott
    • Forbes
    Rick Yune
    Rick Yune
    • Kang
    Melissa Leo
    Melissa Leo
    • Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
    Radha Mitchell
    Radha Mitchell
    • Leah
    Cole Hauser
    Cole Hauser
    • Roma
    Phil Austin
    Phil Austin
    • Vice President Charlie Rodriguez
    James Ingersoll
    • Admiral Nathan Hoenig
    Freddy Bosche
    • Diaz
    Lance Broadway
    • O'Neil
    Sean O'Bryan
    Sean O'Bryan
    • Ray Monroe
    Keong Sim
    Keong Sim
    • Lee Tae-Woo
    Kevin Moon
    • Cho
    Malana Lea
    Malana Lea
    • Lim
    • Director
      • Antoine Fuqua
    • Writers
      • Creighton Rothenberger
      • Katrin Benedikt
    • All cast & crew
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      In the special features, it mentions that the attack on the White House was planned by former Secret Service agents who were asked how they would attack it if they had to.
    • Goofs
      The intruding Gunship shoots down both planes sent to intercept it. In real life, to avoid incidents like that, one interceptor establishes visual contact with the intruder and flies beside him. The other plane flies behind the intruder to shoot him down if the first interceptor experiences hostile action.
    • Quotes

      Mike Banning: [to Kang] Why don't you and I play a game of fuck off. You go first.

    • Alternate versions
      The edited for TNT/TBS cable TV version aside from the usual language and violence edits most notably hackneys its edit for the part where Mike (Gerard Butler) stabs Kang (Rick Yune) in the head. Instead, the viewer witnesses Mike about to stab and then it cuts straight to Kang's body ceasing to move making it unclear that Kang was stabbed let alone where.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Episode #21.111 (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      Christmas With The Man I Love
      Written by Andrew Kingslow (as Andrew Peter Kingslow) (PRS) and Sarah Dowling (NS)

      Published by KPM APM (ASCAP)

      Courtesy of APM Music

    User reviews860

    Review
    Top review
    7/10
    God Bless the United States of Fun-Stupid Conservative action movies
    Like Milius' Red Dawn (though not quite as accomplished technically), it's both completely indefensible substantively and yet a very enjoyable action film all the same. It knows what it is - jingoistic, idiotic drivel - but it's well shot and competently acted idiotic drivel if that makes sense.

    Fuqua, in the mold of Milius, really has his heart-thumping loud and proud as an All-American, but he injects real red-meat and vigor into his direction of the action, which has its chaos but is never hard to follow or disorientating (or it's more controlled chaos to put it another way). Gerard Butler is... as good as he can be, which means he's alright, as an action hero for the first time in a while, and more believable than a Leonidas or whatever. Aaron Eckhardt was just one second away from accidentally yelling "RACHEL!" ala Dark Knight. And Morgan Freeman looked mostly tired, but could still command the screen better than half the rest of the people in the room save for Robert Forster. Oh, and did I mention this movie has a lot of logical gaps (Dylan McDermott's character, for example), and the CGI, such as when a certain rectangular monument is destroyed for no real reason except for cinematic eye-candy, looks so awful that your Windows 95 screen-saver was more convincing? There is that.

    Olympus Has Fallen has an innumerable body count, effectively nasty-cum- stock villains, dialog that is to-the-point and story driven (even if that story, again, can be pretty stupid, and when it comes to those nuclear launch codes really needs a Dr. Strangelove in a wheelchair to come in and explain it to the Pentagon people), and I had a fun time watching the violence ensue. Perhaps when stacked up against actual bulls**** like Taken 2 or a Die Hard 5, its cinematic sins are slightly less egregious- it borrows from other films, liberally one might say (a little *original* Die Hard here, Air Force One there, any given hostage- crisis flick there, oh and how about most 24 episodes crammed into the climax), but somehow it trusts its audience to either be dumb enough to enjoy the ride, or that the smart people know its dumb but can enjoy its own dumb logic on its own terms. In other words, it's patently absurd, and all it's missing is a bald eagle to swoop in at the end to congratulate the heroes.
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    • Mar 26, 2013

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 22, 2013 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • Korean
    • Also known as
      • White House Taken
    • Filming locations
      • Bossier City, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies
      • Millennium Films
      • Millennium Films
      • G-BASE
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $70,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $98,925,640
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $30,373,794
      • Mar 24, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $170,270,201
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 59 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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