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.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 21, 2017

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

| Nov 8, 2016

For what it is this sequel gets the job done.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 15, 2016

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.

| Jun 21, 2016

[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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 10, 2016

It's spectacular -- and spectacularly nasty.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 23, 2016

As a pretty average video game this might possibly have passed muster, but as a big-screen movie it's woeful.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 18, 2016

As nasty as it is fanciful.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2016

London Has Fallen is Donald Trump in film form.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 14, 2016

Racist, stupid and boasting cheesy effects that wouldn't pass muster on basic cable.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 10, 2016

It's not clear who, exactly, demanded a follow-up to 2013's Olympus Has Fallen, but we've got one anyway in the form of London Has Fallen. And now that it's here, it's still not clear why it exists.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 8, 2016

London Has Fallen is smartly enough made by Iranian-born Swedish director Babak Najafi, with some exciting chases and fights.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 7, 2016

Agent Banning is the latest in a long line of heroes whose every bullet kills someone while the bad guys constantly spray him with hundreds of bullets from machine guns, none of which seem to hit the target.

| Mar 7, 2016

The cheap-as-chips visual effects are pitiful (all sub-Doctor Who CG explosions and video-game helicopter crashes), the action sequences coma-inducingly dull and overall tone laughable, but not in a good way.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 6, 2016

Butler doesn't even have his own catchphrase. He just poaches two of Schwarzenegger's, bellowing both "Get to the chopper!" and "I'll be back!"

| Original Score: C | Mar 5, 2016

director Babak Najafi, who not surprisingly staged something called Easy Money II, botches the action sequences so crudely, consistently and cynically that he makes Michael Bay look like Kurosawa.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 4, 2016

Brash, brutal, and simplistic in equal measure, "London Has Fallen" is a retrograde work that, for better and worse, delivers its old-school mayhem with punishing precision and unrepentant glee.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 4, 2016

Somewhere along the line, it may occur to you that Babak Najafi's sequel to 2013's president-in-peril pic Olympus Has Fallen is a sly attack on America masquerading as a celebration of same.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 4, 2016

Butler's dark gusto is unexplained, and his character lacks the charisma and one-liners of fellow macho world-savers Rambo, James Bond and John McClane.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 4, 2016

It's rarely exciting or suspenseful, and some of the digital effects are also reminiscent of a 1980s action movie level.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 4, 2016