Olympus Has Fallen - 6/10
The movie itself as an action flick isn't too bad, without giving away any spoilers essentially a highly trained terrorist force assaults the White House and takes it over, holding the President, Vice President, and others hostage, and it's up to a lone Secret Service Agent to save the day. Far fetched, but I enjoyed the idea of the plot going into the film.
I had to deduct points because they had some major things in the story they never explain. For example the terrorist group has an Air Force AC130 Gunship (in the previews you can see it) and they never explain how they have it. They also have other advanced experimental weapons from the military, and in the movie they even ask how they got them, never explained it. They also had a weakness in the plot idea (a platoon sized terrorist group taking over the white house) so they essentially made every American officer/secret service agent freaking retarded. And I mean it was really bad, they show a bunch of guys standing on the roof and the lawn trying to shoot the Gunship down with M4's, pistols, and 7.62 Sniper Rifles, while just getting mowed down. Then they have waves of guys who run out into machine gun fire and get mowed down, just stupid. F22 pilots flying right next to the Gunship allowing themselves to get shot down by mini guns instead of behind it. It makes no sense to threaten to shoot down a plane if you're flying next to it where you cant shoot it. I also took off a point because they said the Secret Service Agent was "ex Special Forces, Ranger division.".... Special Forces is a specific unit within Special Operations. Rangers are another separate unit within Special Operations, and they are a Regiment. There is division sized unit in Special Operations. 5 seconds on Google would have told them, that's just being lazy.
As an action flick it's not horrible, but I had to try to ignore everything they did to make the plot work. When instead they could have just written it better to make it work.
