Movie Overview: Angel Has Fallen Wants Extra Nick Nolte
The Pitch: After years of serving as a devoted member of the Secret Service (and saving Aaron Eckardt‘s President Asher from Korean and Center Japanese terrorists within the earlier Has Fallen movies, respectively), Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is eyeing a desk job as Secret Service Director so he can calm down and spend extra time along with his spouse Leah (Piper Perabo) and their little lady. Wouldn’t , former Speaker of the Home Alan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), now appearing President, needs to supply him the job.
Earlier than he can, although, a high-tech assassination try leaves Trumbull in a coma and Banning framed for the assault. Escaping from his captors, Banning goes on the run, hoping to evade each legislation enforcement and the rogue navy contractors accountable for the setup. He’ll want extra than simply his wits and knowledgeable combating expertise to clear his identify; he’ll want the assistance of his kooky doomsday-prepper dad Clay (Nick Nolte).
White Home Dumb: One thing within the cloth of the universe went decidedly hinky in 2013: of the 2 “Die Laborious within the White Home” flims that got here out that yr — Olympus Has Fallen and White Home Down — we clearly picked the incorrect one to show right into a trilogy. As a substitute of a campy sequence of buddy motion motion pictures with Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx as Fantasy Motion Obama, we as a moviegoing public selected the self-serious flag-waving of the Fallen sequence (to not point out a few of the ickiest geopolitics to return out of an motion film sequence this decade, however extra on that later).
This time round, Angel Has Fallen strips down the sequence’ regular components right into a lo-fi home thriller, the type of ’90s throwback that feels far more The Fugitive than Die Laborious. Butler’s nonetheless a gruff, workmanlike motion lead, mumbling by means of braindead dialogue with a marble-mouthed American accent. In idea, his age is meant to be a legal responsibility; we be taught he’s downing ache drugs in secret to cover the spinal harm he’s endured from many years of ass-kicking, however after the inciting incident that doesn’t get introduced up as soon as.
