London Has Fallen - And It Can't Get Back Up

[FPLOON]

This review reminded me that I went into watching White House Down during an early morning of not sleeping for more than 24 hours metaphorically blind to how the movie would play out from just knowing who was directing the movie in the first place... and came out of it both really awake and still laughing at how insane the movie got with its various plot twist that, in a different movie, would have made it not as engaging as I wanted it to be given how serious the movie's in-universe took them at face value...

Other than that, if only we got a sequel to While House Down called Buckingham Palace Down or something...

So why no parody sequel to the serious sequel about a President under fire? I half-expected a "Parliament Floor Down" ""Guy Foxx Day"(get it?) or whatever modern tagline can fill that gap. Was Jamie Foxx busy with his music career or something? Not saying that it was a better movie, but these things usually come in pairs. For every "Deep Impact" there's an "Armageddon", every "Mission to Mars a "Red Planet" after all.

Guy Foxx Day sounds like a UK remake to The Purge...

 

[Chris Mosher]

I'm sorry, back up for a second. The vastly superior White House Down? What are you on and where can I get some? While a rather rote action flick, OhF still managed to be light years ahead of WHD. Arguably, WHD only really works if you consider it a parody of OhF.

I will give you the Olympus has Fallen had more intense action at the start but the opening attack was so long it became tedious for me. I also think that an action relies heavily on how interesting the villian is and James Woods and Clarke are both more charismatic then the faceless not North Koreans from the original Fallen film. I also found Butlers unrelenting head stabbing eventually became tedious.