Olympus Has Fallen
FilmDistrict | Release Date: March 22, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
16
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyMar 21, 2013
Korean-American actor and former model Yune (who played a similar role in "Die Another Day," the last Pierce Brosnan James Bond film) makes a colourful villain – handsome and insufferably assured, and also an unchivalrous sadist who kicks around the Secretary of Defense (Melissa Leo in a pageboy wig) as though she’s a hacky sack. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 21, 2013
Although the film's real-world credibility is shaky, it works on its own terms. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 21, 2013
It's that wonderful, totally unambitious yet satisfying thing, a really good movie. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerMar 20, 2013
While Olympus Has Fallen breaks no major new ground in the political thriller genre, Fuqua has directed a sharp, very taut adventure that keeps you engrossed from start to finish. Read full review
67
Film.comJordan HoffmanMar 21, 2013
The action is the real star here, and it’s all good enough. It isn’t great – the aerial special effects are distractingly cheap – but at least there’s lots of it on display. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenMar 20, 2013
Melissa Leo has some standout scenes as the secretary of defense, who gets pretty well beaten up for defying her captors, but others, such as Angela Bassett and Morgan Freeman, have little to do but bite their lips and look tense from the confines of their command posts. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMar 21, 2013
Any semblance of seriousness and verisimilitude suggested by the marketing campaign is quickly forgotten once director Antoine Fuqua's enjoyably tacky Die Hard-on-the-Potomac gets under way. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineMar 19, 2013
The film spends its first act establishing a flimsy emotional groundwork before gleefully taking a sledgehammer to it just seconds into act two. Read full review
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