"London Has Fallen" (movie critique)

LONDON HAS FALLEN

The Friday Movie Mavens are at it again.  This past Friday the movie selected was the action packed, "London Has Fallen".  This is a follow-up story to the successful movie "Olympus Has Fallen".  

In the first movie, Olympus refers to the code name for the US President.  The bad guys infiltrated the White house and in the process took out most of the DC area and especially the White House.  Now the action has moved across the pond and it is London's time to be pretty much taken out.  Aaron Eckhart plays President Benjamin Asher, Gerald Butler is Mike Banning, Special Agent of the Presidential Protective Detail and Morgan Freeman is Allan Trumbull, VP, all who reprise their roles from the first movie.

The premise of the story is that a ruthless Middle Eastern terrorist wants revenge on the Western leaders for a drone attack on his family.  It was thought that Aamir Barkawi was killed in the attack, but he escaped and has taken refuge in Yemen.  Barkawi was #6 on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List.

Why is the action taking place in London?  The British Prime Minister has died under somewhat mysterious circumstances.  The leaders of the Western world come to London to attend the state funeral.  One by one the top leaders are taken out - Canada, Japan, Italy, France. The President's motorcade is attacked but Mike is able to get the Pres out of the combat zone and rendezvous with Marine One helicopters. They plan to take the helicopters to the airfield and get out of town in Air Force One.  But on the way there the helicopters are attacked and shot down.  But once again Mike saves Asher and the two of them are on the run through the streets of London being pursued by the baddies. The English intelligence agencies discover that they have a mole in their inner circle feeding information to Barkawi.  That is why the terrorists knew all the confidential routes and itineraries of the dignities. 

Barkawi's main objective is to capture the President then torture and behead him and broadcast the event live via the internet.  Asher tells Mike to kill him rather than letting him be captured.

Mike is able to keep the Pres safe even after multiple gun battles, car crashes and knife fights. The two of them finally make it to a British safe-house to wait for extraction.  But the bad guys get there first and the Pres is captured.  

So, will Mike save the Pres and the Free World?   Is the British mole discovered and dealt with?  Does Barkawi get what's coming to him?

Well, Dear Readers, you will just have to see this movie yourself to find out the answers to these compelling questions.

This movie is action packed with so many car chases and crashes, gun fights, knife fights, hand to hand combat and grenades launched like Easter eggs that you need to make sure your heart is up to all this excitement.

CAST:

Gerald Butler - Mike Banning Special Agent

Aaron Eckhart - Benjamin Asher President

Morgan Freeman - Allan Trumbull VP

Angela Bassett - Lynne Jacobs Director of USSS

    Alon Moni Aboutboul - Aamir Barkawi

The Travelling Toe gives this movie 2 middle toes up with a bottle of water cause with all that running around London Town you just might get thirsty!

Disclaimer:  The Travelling Toe is not a professional critic and any opinions expressed are for entertainment purposes only.