Sunday, April 5, 2020

The Review: Angel Has Fallen



Angel Has Fallen 2/10

Okay. I saw that Angel Has Fallen arrived on Netflix the other day and had to watch it. Why? Because I like to punish myself and hoped that it would be good. I liked Olympus Has Fallen. London Has Fallen was ass. So I wanted this one to be good. It wasn't. It felt like it was three hours long and took way too long to get to the action and the action was insane. Let me talk about this weird shit. Mike Banning is having a training drill with these guys that are basic military bad guys. This one dude Wade Jennings trained him so I knew that he was gonna be a bad guy. They never mentioned this guy in previous films so yeah.


President Trumbull offers Mike a new position as the director of Secret Service. Mike is having pain issues and back pain and is like “I don't seriously wanna keep doing this...” but doesn't say so because manly. On a boat trip they are attacked by a bunch drones that blow up way too fucking much when they hit a target. Each one has a camera and as soon as it sees someone knows who they are. Trumbull is saved by Banning but still hurt. He wakes up on the hospital handcuffed to the bed and told by FBI Special Agent Helen Thompson saying they have all the evidence that he attacked the president. She is hyped as such a badass and gets killed like an idiot.


Banning escapes when being taken to a facility and taken by some other dudes and escapes those dudes and then held at gunpoint by some other guys and takes their guns and then held up by another guy and he takes that guys truck before having it flipped over. He escapes and finds his father who lives in the woods that left when he was younger. They manage to beat an entire squad of bad guys. It is revealed that the vice president set this all up with this militia and wants to start a war with Russia. It sucks.


Out of the three Fallen movies this was by far the worse one. There seemed to be more explosions and action but it didn't even look cool. There was nothing new about this. The fact that Banning is the only one that somehow survives no matter what happens is like a cartoon for a movie that is supposed to be serious. There is one scene where his wife and daughter are at home surrounded by reporters and in broad ass daylight two armed guys come to get her and are stopped by Banning's father who also managed to get inside. Don't bother watching this. It was a waste of a lot of good actors and actresses. 

Gerard Butler as Mike Banning
Morgan Freeman as President Allan Trumbull
Danny Huston as Wade Jennings
Michael Landes as Sam Wilcox
Tim Blake Nelson as Vice President Martin Kirby
Nick Nolte as Clay Banning
Piper Perabo as Leah Banning
Jada Pinkett Smith as FBI Agent Helen Thompson
Lance Reddick as Secret Service Director David Gentry

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