According
to moviebodycounts.com, (yes, all sorts of information is available on
the Internet), Gerard Butler set some sort of top 5 record with his
movie “300” and I think he easily breaks that record with a body count
of 600 people just in the first half hour of “Olympus Has Fallen”!

As
always one has to check logic at the door when approaching an action
film such as this without even talking about a secret service agent,
Mike Banning, (Butler) working with the president (Aaron Eckhart) and
his wife (Ashley Judd) on Christmas Eve wearing a 5 o’clock shadow!
“Olympus Has Fallen” follows the template of hundreds of movies that
have come before where one man can fight, kill and escape one threat
after another but not one man can escape him.

The
story starts with Banning feeling he has made a mistake and then jumps
ahead 18 months to present day.  The president, and some of his staff,
including secretary of defense McMillan (Melissa Leo) and vice-president
Charlie Rodriguez (Phil Austin)  are held hostage by a North Korean
terrorist, Yang (Rick Yune), making Morgan Freeman the acting president
 who works with secret service director Lynn Jacobs (Angela Bassett).
Connor (Finley Jacobsen) as the president’s son, Dylan McDermott as a
friend of Banning’s and Radha Mitchell as the latter’s wife are all
important parts of the movie but it is Gerard Butler who is the man in
the white hat, who uses the ‘F’ word quite a bit, who comes to the
rescue of all and the world. In no way is that a spoiler as you know
from the beginning it is not who but you have to find out how the hero
will save the day.

Director
Antoine Fuqua, working with a script by Creighton Rothenberger and
Katrin Benedikt, plus an excellent CGI crew and a production crew that
constructs special, amazing sets, keeps the film going at a fast,
sometimes funny pace, defying you to keep an accurate body count.

“Olympus
Has Fallen” is a fun, shake your head, how did they do that, just sit
back and relax thriller of a movie with a music soundtrack that, at
times, is too loud.