London Has Fallen Review

London Has Fallen

Release Date: 17th March 2016 - Australia

Production Companies

Millennium Pictures (presents)

G-BASE

LHF Film

Distribution 

Roadshow Films

Genre: Action

Rating: MA15+ (Not Suitable for Young Children)

Runtime: 99 minutes


Budget: $60,000,000

Box Office Gross: $205,754,447 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary

When the Prime Minister

of England died suddenly

due to mysterious

circumstances, all the

world leaders, including

the President of the United

States, Benjamin Asher,

were called to attend his

funeral in London. What
seems to be a well-
intentioned funeral service
is a plot to assassinate all
the attending world leaders,
as is discovered by Agent

Mike Banning. It's up to

Asher, Banning and an

English MI6 agent to

stop a planned terrorist

attack from their potential

assassination.

Cast

Gerard Butler - Mike Banning

Aaron Eckhart - President Benjamin Asher

Morgan Freeman - VP Trumbull

Alon Moni Aboutboul - Aamir Barkawai

Angela Bassett - Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs

Robert Forster - General Edward Clegg

Melissa Leo - DS Ruth McMillian

Radha Mitchell - Leah Banning

Charlotte Riley - MI6 Jacquelin Marshall

Jackie Earle Haley - DC

Mason

Sean O'Bryan - NSA Ray

Monroe

Waleed Zuaiter - Kamran

Barkawi

Colm Salmon - Chief Hazard

Patrick Kennedy - MI5 Intel John Lancaster

Bryan Larkin - Davies

Michael Wildman - Agent Voight

Andrew Pleavin - Agent Bronson

Deborah Grant - Doris

Clarkson Guy Williams - Leighton Clarkson

Penny Downie - Rose Kenter

Philip Delancy - Jacques Mainard

Alex Giannini - Antonio Giusti

Nancy Baldwin - Agnes Bruckner

Nigel Whitney - Robert Bowman

Tsuwayuki Saotomw - Tsutomu Nakushima

Shivani Ghai - Amal Mansoor

Crew

Director - Babak Najafi

Based on Characters/Story/

Screenplay - Creighton

Rothenberger and Katrin

Benedikt

Screenplay - Christian

Gudegast and Chad St. John

Executive Producers -

Boaz Davidson, Avi Lerner,

Heidi Jo Markel, Trevor Short,

Zygi Kamasa, Christine Otal and

Guy Avshalom

Co-Executive Producer/Production Business

Affairs - Lonnie Ramati

Producers - Gerard Butler,

Mark Gill, John Thompson, Alan Siegel,

Matt O'Toole and Les Weldon

Co-Producers - Peter Heslop and

Danielle Robinson

Production Designer - Joel Collins

Supervising Art Director: UK - Bill Crutcher

Supervising Art Director: Bulgaria - Kes Bonnet

Art Directors - Caroline Barclay,

Nick Dent and Rebecca Milton

Art Directors: Bulgaria - Emil Gigov

and Ivan Ranghelov

Set Decorator - Richard Roberts

Costume Designer - Stephanie Collie

Director of Photography - Ed Wild

Director of Photography: Second Unit -

Lorenzo Senatore

First Assistant Director - Ben Burt

First Assistant Director: Second Unit -

Gerry Gavigan

Second Unit Director/Stunt Coordinator -

Steve Griffin

Stunt Coordinator: Bulgaria - Diyan Hristov

Fight Choreographer/Stunt Coordinator -

Borislav Iliev

Fight Choreographer - Trayan Milenov-Troy

Special Effects Supervisors - Mark Meddings

and Ivo Jivkov

Senior Visual Effects Supervisor - Sean Farrow

Visual Effects Supervisor: Intelligent

Creatures - Geoff D.E. Scott

Visual Effects Supervisor: UPP - Viktor Muller

Editors - Michael J. Duthie and

Paul Martin Smith

Supervising Sound Editor/Sound Designer -

Lee Walpole

Sound Designer - Andy Kennedy

Re-Recording Mixers - Chris David and

Stuart Hilliker

Music - Trevor Morris

Review

Comparatively different from the original. LONDON HAS FALLEN rehashed the formula used once in the first movie and managed to do a great job. Since Olympus Has Fallen is now in popular demand, the studio has settled to continue the political drama and thrilling action in the barbarity of this next instalment. It doesn't reach the cinematic heights of the first movie, but it changed the setting to the European shores of Great Britain, so it is nice to see the use of different locations and a change of scenery. It makes you wonder what part of the world will be in the next instalment. It's still crammed with brainless action sequences that continue to have that sort of violence that may concern parents of underage viewers.

Gerard Butler appears in steadfast and good shape and continues the winning streak with another successful Die Hard knockoff. Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman were crucial for the success of this movie, and the new director knew this fact as he convinced them to reprise their roles in this latest sequel.

The rules have changed in LONDON HAS FALLEN, and it still doesn't matter that the movie is repetitive and unoriginal. After all, this is a movie you watch for instant thrills and good popcorn action. It's an enjoyable film to date. If you get the opportunity, you should watch this movie in theatres, and you do not have to have seen the original to understand this movie as it is the same old formula.

Star rating: (7/10) Good Movie

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