April 6, 2013
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ABOUT MOVIES, TV, ARTS AND EVENTS IN THE VALLEY
Olympus Has Fallen Is A Great Hero Movie With Amazing Action by Art Byrd
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As an avid moviegoer, I get a certain feeling when I know a movie is going to be a great time. I got that feeling from Olympus Has Fallen (OHF). I liked the storyline of the White House being attacked by terrorists and the President being taken hostage. The military held at bay unable to do anything. The terrorists don’t bank on one lone person messing up their almost foolproof (I mean ‘fool’) plan. Is OHF like Die Hard at the White House? Yes. With OHF, there is a case of suspended belief. The plot is actually very good but nothing we haven’t seen before. The hero is disgraced, yet when stuff goes down; he is there to save the day. The hero is Mike Banning played by Gerald Butler (300) who starts out as a well respected Secret Service agent for U.S President Asher played by Aaron Eckhart (The Dark Knight). One fateful snowy night, the President’s limo carrying him and the First Lady played by Ashley Judd (Kiss The Girls) has a terrible crash on a bridge. Banning makes the choice of saving the President and not the First Lady. He is banished to a desk job at the Treasury Department. He is still friends with the head of the Secret Service, Angela Bassett (What’s Love Got To Do With It) who tries to encourage him to hang in there.
“One of the nicest privileges as an actor is to know that you can move people in one moment, make them think about their lives, or make them laugh or make them cry or make them understand something. Or just make them feel something, because I think so many of us, including myself, spend too much time not feeling enough, you know?” Actor Gerald Butler, who is starring in Olympus Has Fallen, in theaters now.