London has fallen

Cast: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett
Rated: 6/10
All conspiracy theory enthusiasts — here’s your bread and butter and jam and cake and the rest of it all. Olympus may not have fallen this time but London certainly has — and how!
It’s Prime Minister has died in sleep and all the Heads of States are in attendance at the State funeral. And then everything blows up, many are killed, cops are compromised and even the top espionage agency is unable to fathom the extent of the infiltration and grand terror operation.
Enter Gerard Butler as Presidential monitor who has the onerous job of protecting the President and the pride of America on a ground where there’s no one to trust and nowhere to be safe. The antics are all played to the gallery on known lines. A lot of fire and fury of the main terrorist (this time the world’s most wanted arms dealer on a revenge plan after his family is blown up at a wedding in Lahore), the most organised operation ever and designs so audacious that the US President has to be publicly hunted down and beheaded in a live telecast!
All handles gear up for this impending doom and only one man — as we all knew — that bloke who can do no wrong and foil every trap — the Secret Service agent Manning holds the show. Of course, the President too adds in with his White House-isms and lot of wry humour peeping out of burning choppers, crashing buildings, forest runs, building traps and overturned cars.
So go be with all the action if you’ve been missing it since the last Hollywood alarm bell rang some years ago. Also, one for Butler and Eckhart fans. 
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 6 March, 2016

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