Olympus has fallen movie review

Cast: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Basset, Robert Forster
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Running time: 1 hour and 59 minutes
  The movie centers around the attack and invasion of the White House and the kidnapping of the President of the United States, played by Aaron Eckhart. Former White House security agent Gerard Butler is the only one who can save the nation from distraction as well as the presidents life.
  What i found unexpected about the movie was how for the first half hour you couldn't say exactly what was happening.Why was the plane killing random people?Why were they attacking the White House?Who was behind all of this?And for a period of time you didn't know who was the mastermind of the attack that was in progress.I thought these little twists gave a little mystery to the first quarter of the movie.And that was the sole reason i gave to the movie the score that you'll see below.
  After that ,which lasted for about 30 minutes, there was a whole lot of boring.The movie was just a giant action scene without any interesting stuff.Other than that, there is not much depth to the characters.We learn almost nothing about them therefore we don't care about their fates at all.we are introduced to Gerard Butler's wife Radha Mitchell and she is supposed to make us see more of Butler's personality but all she does is whine about how Butler is always distracted and ask how his day is going.That's it.The film would actually be better without her.Also, at the begging of the movie we witness Eckhart's accident where his wife dies but we get nothing from it.No real emotions,not anything.It just happens so that Butler can eventually be a former agent so that he is not in the White House at the time of the attack.Also, i feel like the part where, when the invasion starts the president insists that the South Korean Prime Minister joins him in the safe room is totally unrealistic.Even if the president had insisted there is no way that the security would allow for someone they didn't know to be locked in a room with the US president when a terrorist attack was happening.They would take him somewhere else that was safe maybe, but not the same room.Finally, the movie was exhaustingly long, while it didn't need to be.It was a full 2 hours of nothingness.
  In conclusion, this movie is flat with no real character and a total waste of your time.
Score:20%

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