Angel Has Fallen
Lionsgate | Release Date: August 23, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
20
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Film ThreatAlex SavelievAug 25, 2019
Yes, it’s all uber-violent, in-your-face, completely lacking sophistication – but I’ll be damned if it’s not entertaining. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyAug 21, 2019
Angel Has Fallen is almost worth seeing. Read full review
60
Time OutPhil de SemlyenAug 21, 2019
It’s frenetic, brashly executed and so full of shooting, you’ll stagger away with tinnitus. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAug 21, 2019
It's all utterly preposterous, and yet Waugh handles the big scenes pretty well. Read full review
60
IGNJoey EspositoAug 21, 2019
Angel Has Fallen never quite digs deep enough into its themes and is inconsistent in its execution of action sequences. Read full review
50
Original-CinKim HughesAug 22, 2019
It’s entertainment as fast food, though perhaps slightly less objectionable than the horrors perpetuated by KFC. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenAug 22, 2019
Angel Has Fallen plays out exactly as you would expect from a potboiler of this type. No surprises here, other than that it exists at all. It’s the kind of movie one expects to be released at the shank end of summer. Time to turn the page to fall. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliAug 22, 2019
Angel Has Fallen feels like it was cobbled together with cliched action scenes and circumstances overused by the once-popular TV series "24." Angel Has Fallen tries hard (and often succeeds) to topple the Kiefer Sutherland program on the “preposterousness” scale. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 21, 2019
Butler wears the weary man of war thing well, and his stunt crew is aces. Just don’t take any of the rest of this seriously. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerAug 21, 2019
There’s no thrill to this thriller. Nor is there nuance to the characters. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyAug 21, 2019
Given the awfulness of its predecessor, which was this publication’s pick for the worst film of 2016, a sequel that’s merely pedestrian represents a dramatic improvement. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonAug 21, 2019
After the sorry spectacle and blatant xenophobia of London Has Fallen, it’s almost a relief that Angel is merely a competent, second-rate action vehicle. This trilogy’s ambitions have never been particularly high, but at least this third chapter’s fleeting junk-food pleasures aren’t undermined by base pandering. Read full review
45
TheWrapTodd GilchristAug 21, 2019
No one has ever accused a Gerard Butler action movie of being too smart, but “Angel Has Fallen” operates on such a level of half-considered logic and improbable motivations that even moderately well-mounted action can’t distract audiences from how dumb it is. Read full review
42
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonAug 22, 2019
Angel Has Fallen is maybe the least objectionable of the Fallen series, but that’s not really saying much, is it? Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Simran HansAug 25, 2019
Butler is convincingly sturdy as Banning, but the film’s politics are shaky. Read full review
40
We Got This CoveredAsher LubertoAug 22, 2019
Angel Has Fallen is a galumphing installment to a galumphing action franchise. With a hero who's been beaten to a pulp, the next one could very well be called "Gerard Butler Has Fallen: Natural Causes." Read full review
40
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 22, 2019
"The Fugitive,” to which “Angel” owes perhaps even its rooftop finale, is a template against which this movie inevitably falls short. Read full review
40
Total FilmNeil SmithAug 21, 2019
Maudlin, glum and distinctly cheap-looking, Angel brings the curtain down on a trilogy that should have never got this far. Read full review
40
EmpireJohn NugentAug 21, 2019
A big, lumbering bastard of an action movie sequel. It achieves more-or-less exactly what it promises — which, given this franchise’s track record, is a low bar to clear. Read full review
40
The GuardianMike McCahillAug 21, 2019
As with Den of Thieves, Angel falls into the “lively mediocrity” category of Butler schlock, with one or two plot hikes that suggest the script meetings were well-refreshed. Read full review
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