Director Babak Najafi
Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman
Rated MA
Score 2/6

In London for the Prime Minister’s funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

If your after a movie where you can deactivate your brain for 90 minutes and relax for all intents and purposes the is a ok choice, there might be a few better choices but none I noticed while I was at the friendly neighbourhood cinema. However, I’ve noticed a few IMDB message board posts by people who might of have trouble realising that an Action movie is a actually a work of fiction and not a documentary. So in the spirit of friendship I suggest that if you have any friends like that when you leave your friendly neighbourhood cinema you remind that friend that London has Fallen was just a movie.

Now for those of you who might not know already London has Fallen is the sequel to the 2013 movie Olympus has Fallen that also stared Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart & Morgan Freeman.
I’ll stand by comment that this is ok choice to deactivate your brain and relax (yes I realise how that part of that comment might seem funny to people who actually know me) but there a couple of problems that not sure if they can be excused (and there a little more than the prospect of listening to your idiot friend on the way out of the cinema) especially if you take into consideration that the original has developed a reputation as being the next great “Die Hard” movie. The run time of 99 minutes was nowhere long enough the Olympus has fallen was 20 minutes longer while the family friendly version of Olympus has Fallen which was released in the same year was 32 minutes longer now I could be wrong here but isn’t a mark of a good film franchise to have the instalments come in with similar running times? If there is a third instalment ‘…. has fallen’ franchise I might have to skip it at the cinema and wait for the DVD release.
Now it was great that this had a director that I was completely unfamiliar with and admittedly it did have some good some good sequences but the pace of the movie seemed to be a little less frantic then what it should have been given the running time that the filmmakers choice to go with.