High expectation low result.After a terrorist attack on London ends with most of the leaders of the Western world dead, it’s up to Secret Service agent Mike Banning(Gerard Butler) to keep the U.S president alive until an extraction team can reach them, fallen was one of the most unlikely sleeper hits in recent memory.
A few years ago, Gerard Butler’s career seemed to be on the down-slide, and with the mega-budget, similarly-themed WHITE HOUSE DOWN due in theaters a few months later, no one thought OLYMPUS would do much business. Happily for hardcore action fans, director Antoine Fuqua pulled-off a really fun, DIE HARD-style, hardcore action thriller that raked in the bucks and left WHITE HOUSE DOWN in the dust.