Saturday, June 29, 2013

Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

[could have been a great Die Hard movie]

Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
IMDB- 6.9
RottenTomatoes- 47%
RJG Ratings- 70

The White House is taken hostage by terrorists.

Starring- Gerard Butler,Aaron Eckhart,Morgan Freeman
Director- Antoine Fuqua

The cast is good.Gerard Butler gives in a good performance and supported by Aaron ,they both give the movie a charged atmosphere.Morgan Freeman is great too.

The story for Olympus HF ,is not one to be closely examined.Its an action movie with not much priority for story.The story they do use is pretty decent but very over the top.Its hard to believe majority of the stuff that happens in the movie.Not to mention it has a cliched president character.Much of the dialogue are way too cheesy.

Direction by Antoine is good.He has maintained a good pace for Olympus and 2hrs easily slip by without the movie getting dull at anytime.With a good cast and some nice action scenes ,hes able to cover up for the lacking story.

Watching Olympus HF ,reminded me of the good ol Die Hard Part1.This had all the ingredients of such a movie and is a 100 times better than the recent Die Hard movies.

Overall ,Olympus HF is a good timepass action movie.It isnt anything great but will please those who love movies like Die Hard.

Acting- 3/5
Story- 2.5/5
Direction- 3.5/5
Action- 3.5/5
Drama- 2.5/5
Thriller- 3.5/5

Latest reports from AmazingSpiderman2


Amazing Spiderman 2 is one sequel that is piling the story with major characters.Other than the main 2 leads ,Peter Parker/Spidey and Gwen from the first movie ,we have Mary Jane and 3 villians Electro ,Harry Osborn ,Rhino.

Mary Jane's addition to the story was a bit weird considering ,Peter-Gwen relation was just starting off by the end of the first movie.But now Shailene ,who plays Mary Jane ,revealed that her scenes were being cut from the movie.As of now ,its not sure whether Shailene is being dropped from the movie completely,or if her scenes are being transferred for the Amazing Spiderman 3.

As one character is dropped off ,another was sort of revealed! Felicity Jones joined the cast for a role that has not yet been revealed to the public.But in a recent interview ,she mistakenly "sort of" admitted that she was going to play Black Cat.The best way to describe Black Cat is, she is a Marvel version of DC's Catwoman.Sometimes a villain ,sometimes a heroine ,Black Cat is in the grey area.

So it takes the number of villains in the sequel to 4 ,which i think is the most number of villains in a superhero movie (except the X-Men series).And as time has told us ,if a movie exceeds 2 villains ,its headed towards disaster.
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