London Has Fallen

London Has Fallen is another one of those forgettable end-of-winter action films that don't really make much common sense but are really fun to watch when you are distracted with popcorn.

For a bullet-a-minute action/thriller, London Has Fallen is good. Never great.

For what it is this sequel gets the job done.

While Olympus Has Fallen was an enjoyable action thriller with Banning single-handedly overpowering the White House infiltrators, London Has Fallen is much harder to swallow.

[London Has Fallen] is atrocious -- wildly implausible, casually racist, mean-spirited, and strangely defensive about U.S. drone strikes that take out innocent civilians in the Middle East.

It's spectacular -- and spectacularly nasty.

If it wasn’t for the more believable premise, the moments of fatherhood and Gerard Butler’s performance, this would also be a huge fail. For some audiences that won’t be enough and it’ll come off cold but for others, there is some fun to be had here.

“London Has Fallen” is an action fan’s dream come true and a worthy follow-up to Mr. Fuqua’s 2013 hit.

There are a couple of shootouts that are an absolute blast. It’s too bad there isn’t enough surrounding the action to make this worthwhile.

Even with the lowered expectations established by Antoine Fuqua's original, the sequel, directed by Swedish filmmaker Babak Najafi, manages to underwhelm.