One Paragraph Review - Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

Netflix is now carrying Olympus Has Fallen, so I decided to check it out. What a terrible movie. There are some decent action sequences, but even these lack much of a sense of logic. The acting is bad (and there was a pretty good cast). The effects are pretty good, although there are numerous technical inaccuracies. Basically, the North Koreans attack the White House, in order to use a fail-safe system in our nuclear arsenal to blow up all of our missile, devastating America. Gerard Butler is a lone Secret Service agent trapped in the White House, who kills dozens of people and saves the President (Aaron Eckhart). Meanwhile, acting president Morgan Freeman (as the Speaker of the House) pretty much surrenders to the North Koreans. But, no worries, Butler saves the day, Eckhart gives a speech about how the attack will bring Americans together - I assume we will all be together in the our desire to nuke North Korea - and then the movie just ends. There are no apparent repercussions, not much of a plan by the NorKors (the fail-safe system needs 3 security codes; if no one gives them up, their plan ends with Pyongyang a glowing crater), and stupid, senseless decisions by most of the characters that makes holding on to your suspension of disbelief almost impossible. For the $70 million dollars they spent on this loud, moronic mess, maybe they should have bought a story that made sense. If you have Netflix, there are some decent action sequences to watch. Otherwise, avoid.