London Has Fallen
Focus Features | Release Date: March 4, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
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4
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12
Negative:
19
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMar 3, 2016
An impossibly enjoyable live-action cartoon that plays on our real-life anxieties about vengeful cadres of foreign radicals blowing up people - and places. Read full review
67
The PlaylistNick SchagerMar 2, 2016
Brash, brutal, and simplistic in equal measure, it’s a retrograde work that, for better and worse, delivers its old-school mayhem with punishing precision and unrepentant glee. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerMar 5, 2016
The film is a popcorn-crowd pleaser, but a “yippee ki-yay” or two away from something more memorable. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 3, 2016
As action-thrillers go, this one provides what the previews tease. Maybe that’s enough for an evening’s mindless, throw-away entertainment, but I can’t help but be disappointed that the filmmakers couldn’t have brought something more inventive to a genre that too often relies on worn-out tropes. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMar 2, 2016
While not nearly as elaborate, nor as visually sophisticated as the last Mission: Impossible outing or the most recent Bonds, London Has Fallen is actually more plausible at its core, if not in its details, which is partly why it succeeds in laying claim to an audience's attention for the entirety of its swift running time. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonKate LloydMar 2, 2016
It’s all so overly macho that it plays like a camp pleasure-cruise. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenMar 3, 2016
The action is pumped up. The destruction is extreme. The whole thing is absurd. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEd GonzalezMar 2, 2016
Like its predecessor, the film is content to dumbly relish in the inanity of Mike's rampage. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyChristian HolubMar 2, 2016
The new sequel, London Has Fallen, implausibly ups its predecessor’s stakes to "Die Hard in the City of London." Unfortunately, widening the scope this dramatically causes the entire fragile action-movie axis to spin wildly out of control. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottMar 3, 2016
Najafi's R-rated London Has Fallen doesn't target the genteel viewer. Rather, it aims squarely for moviegoers who like their action bloody, their fights brutal, their body count sky-high. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Mar 3, 2016
Remember “Olympus Has Fallen”? This one is worse. Read full review
40
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 3, 2016
It's all silly and meant to be fun, except when Najafi tries to throw in some serious bits, which wind up being sillier still. Read full review
40
Total FilmNeil SmithMar 3, 2016
Bloodthirsty, derivative and xenophobic nonsense. Read full review
40
EmpireWilliam ThomasMar 2, 2016
It’s a film that doesn’t so much invite you to switch off your brain as take it out and dump it in the nearest popcorn box. Read full review
40
Screen DailyFionnuala HalliganMar 2, 2016
Creepy “send them back to Fuckheadistan” sentiment overwhelms London Has Fallen’s guilty pleasures, its meaty violence and xenophobic nastiness giving the cheddar an unpleasant aftertaste. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawMar 2, 2016
There is some surreal fun at the beginning as everything collapses.... But then it’s the same thing over again. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMar 16, 2016
It’s difficult to imagine anyone appearing in this film thought of it as more than a payday. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 3, 2016
There’s little drama, but the fights and chases (Butler hanging out of a moving SUV) are exciting, if not very original. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 2, 2016
The film, with its wearying gamer-style rounds of death, is routine at best. Read full review
35
TheWrapAndy KleinMar 7, 2016
Iranian-born director Babak Najafi (“Sebbe”) and the four credited screenwriters... make things move fast enough to keep you awake, but not fast enough to finesse its plot absurdities past an alert viewer’s mind. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 3, 2016
As long as there are enemies in Islamic lands, we'll probably have to endure risible time-wasters like London Has Fallen, designed to justify blinkered foreign policy attitudes and stoke jokey hatred. Read full review
30
Village VoiceScott TobiasMar 2, 2016
The action never stops once the first car bomb is triggered, but the second half of London Has Fallen takes place mostly in the dark, where nobody can see the budget. Read full review
30
VarietyGuy LodgeMar 2, 2016
For all the slicing and dicing of the editing, narrative momentum grinds to a trudge after the synthetic spectacle of the capital’s undoing. Read full review
25
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanMar 5, 2016
No characterization. A plot you could write on a single sheet of toilet paper. Sadistic violence we’re meant to cheer. A surprise that wouldn’t fool anyone who left the theater after the opening credits and came back for the last 10 minutes. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTom RussoMar 3, 2016
For the sequel, London Has Fallen, Butler and director Babak Najafi (HBO’s “Banshee”) strike a tone that’s more consistent — consistently dumb. Read full review
25
ConsequenceRandall ColburnMar 3, 2016
London Has Fallen is terrorism porn, an alarmist, jingoistic piece of CGI-soaked garbage that implores its audience to fear nothing after sensationalizing the slaughter of innocents and the destruction of a major city. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisMar 2, 2016
When viewing the action thriller London Has Fallen, there’s no escaping the reality that you’ve seen everything on the screen before — many, many times. For every bullet, and you will lose count, there is a cliche. Read full review
25
The Film StageDaniel SchindelMar 2, 2016
The special effects are worse than I thought modern studio filmmaking allowed for. Actors such as Robert Forster and Melissa Leo reprise their roles from the first film with maybe half-a-dozen lines apiece. Were it not for the presence of said actors, this could easily pass for a DTV spin-off. Read full review
20
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMar 3, 2016
Will this hard-luck president again defy death while his stoic sidekick vanquishes the nasty, uncivilized terrorists? It’s hard to care when a movie is this formulaic and moronic. Read full review
12
Washington PostStephanie MerryMar 3, 2016
London Has Fallen is remarkable only because of how much worse it is than its inane predecessor. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiMar 3, 2016
A horrible and wildly unnecessary follow-up that might actually be worse than its predecessor. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovMar 2, 2016
Perhaps these are dark times, both onscreen and off, but even if they are not, London Has Fallen is an hour-and-a-half of viciously Us vs. Them, Trump-style bad filmmaking on all known levels. Read full review
0
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 4, 2016
Make American movies great again. You can start by boycotting this one. Read full review
0
New York PostLou LumenickMar 3, 2016
Racist, stupid and boasting cheesy effects. Read full review
0
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMar 2, 2016
Perhaps the movie’s politics—which range from tone deaf to irredeemable—would be more of an issue if it weren’t so inept. Read full review
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