London Has Fallen (2016)
Critic Reviews
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The Playlist Nick Schager
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.
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The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy
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.
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60
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Time Out London Kate Lloyd
It's all so overly macho that it plays like a camp pleasure-cruise.
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50
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Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez
Like its predecessor, the film is content to dumbly relish in the inanity of Mike's rampage.
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42
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Entertainment Weekly
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.
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Screen International Fionnuala Halligan
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.
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40
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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw
There is some surreal fun at the beginning as everything collapses.... But then it's the same thing over again.
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Empire William Thomas
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.
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30
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Variety Guy Lodge
For all the slicing and dicing of the editing, narrative momentum grinds to a trudge after the synthetic spectacle of the capital's undoing.
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The A.V. Club Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Perhaps the movie's politics-which range from tone deaf to irredeemable-would be more of an issue if it weren't so inept.
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