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      Olympus Has Fallen

      2013, Action/Mystery & thriller, 2h 0m

      201 Reviews 100,000+ Ratings

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      It's far from original, but Olympus Has Fallen benefits from Antoine Fuqua's tense direction and a strong performance from Gerard Butler -- which might just be enough for action junkies. Read critic reviews

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      The unthinkable happens when heavily armed and highly trained terrorists launch a bold daytime attack on the White House. The building is overrun, and President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and his staff are taken hostage. Luckily for Asher, former presidential security officer Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is on the scene. With time running out, it's up to Banning to locate Asher's son before the extremists do and rescue the president before his captors unleash their ultimate plan.

      • Rating: R (Strong Violence|Language Throughout)

      • Genre: Action, Mystery & thriller

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Antoine Fuqua

      • Producer: Alan Siegel, Ed Cathell III, Danny Lerner

      • Writer: Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt

      • Release Date (Theaters):  wide

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $98.9M

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: FilmDistrict

      • Production Co: Millennium Films

      • Sound Mix: Datasat, Dolby Digital

      Cast & Crew

      Gerard Butler
      Aaron Eckhart
      Morgan Freeman
      Angela Bassett
      Melissa Leo
      Ashley Judd
      Dylan McDermott
      Phil Austin
      James Ingersoll
      Sean O'Bryan
      Keong Sim
      Robert Forster
      Katrin Benedikt
      Avi Lerner
      Trevor Short
      Boaz Davidson
      John Thompson
      Conrad W. Hall
      John Refoua
      Trevor Morris
      Derek R. Hill
      Karen Steward
      Cathy T. Marshall
      Doug Hall

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      • Jun 20, 2017

        Out of the wealth of "Die Hard in an (X)" movies that are on offer, "Die Hard in the White House" is an.... okay one. The story is old hat and the CGI is awful, but the sequence of the initial attack on the White House isn't just good, it's great.

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      • Mar 30, 2016

        What a dumb, fun, entertaining movie this is. There really is no real story in this movie, other than an attack on the White House. Then it's just straight up "Die Hard" after that, and it's so beautiful to finally get to see a good "Die Hard" movie again. Gerard Butler plays Mike Banning, who is basically just British John McClane. And then we have Aaron Eckhart as Benjamin Asher, the POTUS and Morgan Freeman as Allan Trumbull, the public speaker. They are very good too. This is just a very dumb action movie, and those are the kind of movies that I really love to watch.

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      • Mar 21, 2016

        Worlds better than White House Down and Butler is a much mo believable hero than Channing Tatum. Taut and tense and well shot and directed by Antoine Fuqua. Very violent but a decent action film. 03-20-2016

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      • Mar 20, 2016

        Typical actioner in that there is one man, our hero, up against a terrorist army ... and the terrorists, arrogant and cruel, don't know what we know, that they don't have a chance. Be prepared for the classic/obligatory scene wherein a hundred bad guys shoot at our hero and everyone of them misses, but every shot the hero fires back not only finds a target but does so spectacularly. Why do they make these? Because it's a fantasy that has not found bottom yet. People still buy the dream. Quite literally a dramatization of the old parental warning: "don't make me get up and teach you a lesson cause the learning's gonna hurt you." There's an interesting segment wherein a woman is tortured as badly as a man would be - glass ceiling break, baby.

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