If you wandered into the room and this movie was already playing, you'd never know it was a film at all. It looks like a feeble imitation of something like Spooks,which is itself, a feeble imitation of 24.
Except it's not even that good! Most films are shot on video these days but with the right lenses and post production video can be very cinematic. The look of 'London has Fallen' though, is sub t.v. drama. The effects look like they were done on an Iphone app. Maybe they were going for a documentary feel? No. You do that in order to achieve realism, and realism is no part of the philosophy of this tosh.
The script for instance is mind blowingly dumb. . Characters are constantly doing things that they simply wouldn't do, given their motivation:
If you were driving a bullet proof car containing the president, being chased by 20 armed motorcyclists, would you hang out of the door and open fire with a 9mm? No, you'd be throwing away your only advantage. You'd probably not hit anyone, except maybe an innocent bystander, and most likely get shot yourself. Far better to slam on the brakes and cause the bikes to crash into you. Shouldn't be too hard, given that each rider has an Uzi in their right hand thus preventing them braking effectively.
Or, , if you were a senior member of the secret service, and you identified a double agent feeding information to terrorists FOR MONEY, would you confront them alone in a car park with no backup and shoot them dead for being a bad egg (assuming your gun doesn't jam)? No, they're your only lead to the organisation that has murdered half of the world's leaders. You'd interrogate them,and possibly offer them a deal and a bribe.
Likewise, if you were a terrorist and you had the U.S. President in your clutches and the S.A.S battering at your door, would you risk waiting until the power comes back on before executing him so you can stream it live? Or would you video it on your phone and upload it to YouTube?
It's tempting to speculate, that 59 million of the 60 million dollars it took to make this movie was spent on a huge 48 hour cocaine fuelled, binge, that appears in the accounts as a 'script development meeting', and during which, all of the production team competed to produce the most clunky and meaningless piece of dialogue, or the most demented plot device, so they could giggle about it later.
To say that the plot doesn't matter in an action film is a cop out. Action films can be intelligent and involving, if you do them right (The Bourne Films) or they can be, as in this case, a load of corny, macho drivel.
Except it's not even that good! Most films are shot on video these days but with the right lenses and post production video can be very cinematic. The look of 'London has Fallen' though, is sub t.v. drama. The effects look like they were done on an Iphone app. Maybe they were going for a documentary feel? No. You do that in order to achieve realism, and realism is no part of the philosophy of this tosh.
The script for instance is mind blowingly dumb. . Characters are constantly doing things that they simply wouldn't do, given their motivation:
If you were driving a bullet proof car containing the president, being chased by 20 armed motorcyclists, would you hang out of the door and open fire with a 9mm? No, you'd be throwing away your only advantage. You'd probably not hit anyone, except maybe an innocent bystander, and most likely get shot yourself. Far better to slam on the brakes and cause the bikes to crash into you. Shouldn't be too hard, given that each rider has an Uzi in their right hand thus preventing them braking effectively.
Or, , if you were a senior member of the secret service, and you identified a double agent feeding information to terrorists FOR MONEY, would you confront them alone in a car park with no backup and shoot them dead for being a bad egg (assuming your gun doesn't jam)? No, they're your only lead to the organisation that has murdered half of the world's leaders. You'd interrogate them,and possibly offer them a deal and a bribe.
Likewise, if you were a terrorist and you had the U.S. President in your clutches and the S.A.S battering at your door, would you risk waiting until the power comes back on before executing him so you can stream it live? Or would you video it on your phone and upload it to YouTube?
It's tempting to speculate, that 59 million of the 60 million dollars it took to make this movie was spent on a huge 48 hour cocaine fuelled, binge, that appears in the accounts as a 'script development meeting', and during which, all of the production team competed to produce the most clunky and meaningless piece of dialogue, or the most demented plot device, so they could giggle about it later.
To say that the plot doesn't matter in an action film is a cop out. Action films can be intelligent and involving, if you do them right (The Bourne Films) or they can be, as in this case, a load of corny, macho drivel.