The love story is pointless to the whole film and doesn’t add any value. If anything, it just gets in the way of the story.

| Original Score: C | Aug 23, 2024

“Olympus Has Fallen” is a phenomenal actioner with very timely implications and a frightening “what if” premise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 29, 2023

Corny and overwrought.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 12, 2022

“Olympus Has Fallen” was a trip back in time through both the film’s high-octane action as well as with its predictable shortcomings.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

"Olympus Has Fallen" is entirely predictable, yet wholly entertaining in bringing the carnage.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2021

It's all poise or composure, excessive bloodshed (a few slick, enemy headshots), and one-liners that don't work in this severe, ruthless scenario.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It feels like a really good idea desperately looking for a filmmaker and production crew able to convincingly bring it to life.

| Original Score: 2.0/4.0 | Sep 18, 2020

Gormless, guilty-pleasure action thriller, best viewed as the Die-Hard-Hits-The-White-House affair it so clearly wants to be. And to its relative credit, just about is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2020

It doesn't set a trend, but closely follows the blueprint laid out by the much better movies that came before it - like painting by numbers.

| Original Score: C+ | Jul 27, 2020

An easy movie that just plopped out of the studio and isn't particularly worth paying attention to.

| Original Score: C | Jul 9, 2020

Olympus Has Fallen is the closest an action movie using the Die Hard formula has come to that seminal film without being an actual Die Hard movie. Even though this movie is completely derivative, it still ends up being fun.

| Jul 7, 2020

Topical, timely, frightening, flag-waving inspiring, Olympus Has Fallen is a non-stop explosive thriller that leaves you breathless!

| Nov 27, 2019

One of the most depressing and despicable films I have ever seen.

| Aug 28, 2019

It's all very busy but not especially exciting, and it does little to transcend what was doubtless its pitched tag as Die Hard Meets Air Force One.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 28, 2019

Moving through the tropes as methodically as Banning through the rooms and corridors of the wrecked White House, this is well-paced and never boring.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 23, 2019

For those who like this sort of thing-and I'm not a big fan of the jingoistic action genre-it does the job.

| Aug 14, 2019

Olympus Has Fallen is a solid action film, and it hints at big ideas that make it something more than purely superficial entertainment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 14, 2018

However, Olympus Has Fallen is an overactive cliché-driven concoction that panders to the familiar "White House under attack" formula that we have seen countless times over. Olympus has indeed fallen...and in so many unimaginable ways possible.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 18, 2018

The film is so patriotic and jingoistic, it would make Michael Bay blush.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 1, 2018

Well before halfway what it resembles more than anything is another Die Hard film, only without Bruce Willis.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 1, 2017