Caleb Curtis
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Movie Review: Angel Has Fallen
If you love action-packed movies with crazy plot twists, I’m sure you’ve already seen the first two movies in this series and loved them. If that is the case, you will love this movie as well. On the other hand, if you’re going to want to watch a movie with a well thought out story line and realistic events, you might be pretty let down.
This is no award-winning acting, as Gerard Butler is in his fairly common role, with the explosions and crazy fights. Then Morgan Freeman plays what should be a large roll(The POTUS), but he really didn’t get the amount of screen time that a big name like that should have.
The Fallen movie series released its third film on Aug. 23 with Angel Has Fallen. The movie follows Mike Banning, played by Gerard Butler, just as it has in the previous two films, Olympus Has Fallen (2013), and London Has Fallen (2016).
Oddly enough, this third Fallen movie was directed by a third different director, Ric Roman Waugh, as Antoine Fuqua directed the first movie, and Babak Najafi took the reins on the second. Waugh’s most notable work was in the 2013 movie Snitch, which featured Dwayne Johnson as the main role.
The movie begins with Mike Banning training with an old friend, Wade Jennings, at a private facility. Banning is then asked by President Trumbull to be the director of the Secret Service, while he is hiding the fact he is taking regular doctor visits for all the trauma and pain he has experienced from his past encounters protecting the President.
President Trumbull then takes a fishing trip before being attacked by armed drones. Banning manages to save the President, but not before Trumbull is knocked into a coma. Evidence is then found pointing to Banning as the one who planned the attacks, and he is taken off to a detention facility. However, before he could make it there, his transport is ambushed, but he manages to make it out alive once again.
It was then that Banning knew he had been betrayed by his powerful friend, Jennings. He must then bring down Jennings and his expertly trained crew if he wants to prove his innocence.
As an overall movie, it kept me entertained, but the lack of realistic events really is a bother, so I give it a 2.8 out of 5.
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