When the White House (Secret Service Code: “Olympus”) is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning’s inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.
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Film Cast:

• Mike Banning: Gerard Butler
• President Benjamin Asher: Aaron Eckhart
• Connor: Finley Jacobsen
• Forbes: Dylan McDermott
• Kang: Rick Yune
• Alan Trumbull: Morgan Freeman
• Roma: Cole Hauser
• Leah: Radha Mitchell
• Lynne Jacobs: Angela Bassett
• Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan: Melissa Leo
• Vice President Charlie Rodriguez: Phil Austin
• Admiral Nathan Hoenig: James Ingersoll
• Diaz: Freddy Bosche
• O’Neil: Lance Broadway
• Ray Monroe: Sean O’Bryan
• Lee Tae-Woo: Keong Sim
• Cho: Kevin Moon
• Lim: Malana Lea
• General Edward Clegg: Robert Forster
• Yu: Sam Medina
• Margaret Asher: Ashley Judd
• News Reporter #1: Mike Snyder
• Korean Pilot: Josiah D. Lee
• Head Technician: Edrick Browne
• Raptor Pilot: Sean Boyd
• Army Tech Officer: Hunter Burke
• News Reporter #2: Aonika Laurent
• Sniper #1: Jace Jeanes
• Sniper #2: Sione Ma’umalanga
• Agent Jones: Tory Kittles
• Agent Davis: Shane Land
• Mary Jane Fuller: Shanna Forrestall
• Long-Haired EMT: Ian Casselberry
• Mrs. Mosely: Dorothy Deavers
• Nurse: Amber Dawn Landrum
• Dr. Guildes: Han Soto
• Crisis Room Radio Man: Kenneth Wayne Bradley
• Watch Officer: Bill Stinchcomb
• News Reporter #3: Michelle Celeste Assil
• News Reporter #4: Met Salih
• CIA Director: Darrell L. Connerton
• Army Commander: Terry Dale Parks
• Army Lieutenant: Michael Stallings
• FBI Assistant Director: Elliott Grey
• Self: Hamish Macdonald
• Self: Lawrence O’Donnell
• Self: Rick Chambers
• Male Reporter: Scott Walker
• Female Reporter: Catherine Shreves
• Korean Terrorist (uncredited): Arnold Chon
• Korean Commando (uncredited): Lewis Tan
• Secret Service Agent (uncredited): J. J. Perry
• Kang’s Korean Commando (uncredited): Simon Rhee
• Undercover Commando (uncredited): Ron Yuan
• Senate Intelligence Officer (uncredited): David Joseph Martinez
• Korean Commando (uncredited): Andy Cheng
• Korean Commando (uncredited): Steve Kim
• Korean Commando (uncredited): Danny Le Boyer
• Korean Commando (uncredited): Woon Young Park
• Korean Commando (uncredited): Ho-Sung Pak
• Korean Terrorist (uncredited): Philip Tan
• Korean Terrorist (uncredited): Stephen Oyoung

Film Crew:

• Casting: Amanda Mackey
• Casting: Cathy Sandrich Gelfond
• Production Design: Derek R. Hill
• Color Timer: Jim Passon
• Executive Producer: Boaz Davidson
• Producer: Gerard Butler
• Producer: Danny Lerner
• Executive Producer: Avi Lerner
• Still Photographer: Phillip V. Caruso
• Producer: Antoine Fuqua
• Visual Effects Editor: Steven Ramirez
• Camera Loader: Nancy Piraquive
• Director of Photography: Conrad W. Hall
• Leadman: Phil Shirey
• Second Unit Director of Photography: Gary Capo
• Editor: John Refoua
• Original Music Composer: Trevor Morris
• Additional Photography: Lorenzo Senatore
• Special Effects Technician: Michael H. Clark
• Producer: Mark Gill
• Stunt Coordinator: Keith Woulard
• Still Photographer: Kyle Rudolph
• Sound Mixer: Steve C. Aaron
• Producer: Ed Cathell III
• Visual Effects Producer: Scott Coulter
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Vladimir Nikolov
• Costume Design: Doug Hall
• Lighting Technician: Gary Harvill
• Video Assist Operator: Nathan Trucks
• Producer: Alan Siegel
• Set Designer: Bob Danyla
• Art Direction: Karen Steward
• Lighting Technician: Joshua Anderson
• Stunt Coordinator: Lin Oeding
• Special Effects Technician: Jason Babin
• Writer: Katrin Benedikt
• Writer: Creighton Rothenberger
• Music Editor: Richard Ziegler
• Stunts: Elena Sanchez
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Jeppe N. Christensen
• Casting Associate: Ryan Glorioso
• Key Costumer: Donna Chance
• Special Effects Technician: Bob Trevino
• Makeup Department Head: Chris Bingham
• ADR Editor: Paul Timothy Carden
• Key Hair Stylist: Crystal Woodford
• Armorer: David D. Baumann
• Property Master: Mike Scherschel
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Wes C. Caefer
• Costume Supervisor: K. Drew Fuller
• Dialect Coach: Francie Brown
• CG Supervisor: Dobrimir Georgiev
• Visual Effects Producer: Ben Pickering
• Electrician: Ahmad Powell
• Visual Effects Editor: Petar Minov
• Script Supervisor: Mary Frances Eglin
• Rigging Gaffer: Earl Woods
• Construction Coordinator: John Blanchard
• Visual Effects Editor: Angelina Borisowa
• Camera Operator: Mark Schmidt
• Steadicam Operator: Michael Stumpf
• Assistant Hairstylist: Andrea Bowman
• Visual Effects Editor: Nikolay Pachov
• Hairstylist: Deena Adair
• First Assistant Editor: William Paley
• Unit Publicist: Cid Swank
• Set Dresser: Jed Pendergrass
• Script Supervisor: Christine Lalande
• Hair Department Head: Charlotte Parker
• Camera Operator: Allan Westbrook
• Makeup Artist: LaToya Henderson
• Camera Operator: Michael Applebaum
• Assistant Art Director: Sean Ryan Jennings
• Hairstylist: Carol White
• Greensman: Mike Herriage
• Greensman: William Nutt
• Costumer: Cathie Valdovino
• Animation: Yanko Petrov
• Rigging Gaffer: Brad Garris
• Property Master: Charles Guanci Jr.
• Compositing Supervisor: Andrew Sagar
• Tailor: Frances Jacques-LeCompte
• Set Costumer: Rodney Williamson
• Music Supervisor: Selena Arizanovic
• Set Decoration: Cathy T. Marshall
• Casting Associate: Rachel Constantinescu
• Armorer: Larry Zanoff
• First Assistant “A” Camera: Peter D. Roome
• ADR Mixer: Travis MacKay
• First Assistant “A” Camera: Joe Waistell
• Assistant Camera: Bryan Delorenzo
• Transportation Coordinator: Greg Faucett
• Lighting Technician: Jamie Moreno
• Seamstress: Jane Ryder
• Key Grip: Jack Chouchanian
• Costumer: R. Todd Jones
• Digital Intermediate Colorist: Jill Bogdanowicz
• Key Rigging Grip: Sean P. Fickert
• Key Makeup Artist: Erica Brunson
• Sculptor: André Freitas
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Svetoslav Mitev
• Animation: Tsvetan Ivanov
• Standby Painter: Dennis Collins
• Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Cheryl Clarson
• Chief Lighting Technician: Peter Clarson
• Second Assistant Camera: Ian Henderson
• Rigging Grip: Mel Perdikis
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Milena Peneva
• Rigging Grip: Max Patrucco
• Storyboard Artist: Darryl Henley
• Assistant Editor: Rowan Maher
• Set Dresser: Jennifer Benton
• Assistant Editor: Eva Contis
• Extras Casting: Andrei Constantinescu
• 3D Artist: Ryan Markley
• Second Assistant Camera: Justin Cooley
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Nikola D. Nikolov
• Dolly Grip: Marvin Haven
• Pre-Visualization Coordinator: Daniel Midgley
• Construction Buyer: Troy A. Johnson
• Key Grip: Mark Shane Davis
• First Assistant “B” Camera: Keith Pokorski
• Digital Intermediate: Mark Smirnoff
• 3D Generalist: Dwight Carter
• CG Artist: Kyoung Kay Park
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Travis Howe
• Visual Effects Editor: Emily Perla
• Visual Effects Editor: Dee Anne Phillips
• VFX Supervisor: Andreas Alesik
• Compositor: Keith Anderson
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Vasil Galabov
• Second Assistant Camera: Ryosuke Kawanaka
• Assistant Costume Designer: Susan Thomas
• Production Accountant: Amy Agzarian
• Set Dresser: Jaime Fernandez
• Animation: Sana Radeva
• Rigging Grip: Raúl J. Marín
• Set Dresser: Floyd B. Sterling
• Video Assist Operator: Kevin Stevenson
• Costumer: Myeshea Baker
• Set Dresser: Cary Whittaker
• Construction Foreman: Tony Farrell
• CG Artist: Esteban Olide
• Lighting Technician: Casey Zimmerman
• Lighting Technician: Jon McGinty
• Libra Head Technician: Craig Nix
• Set Designer: Lynsey Mouer
• Art Department Coordinator: A. Michelle Young
• Art Department Production Assistant: Drew Weininger
• Assistant Property Master: Kate Forry Guanci
• Carpenter: David Easley
• Construction Buyer: Jane Blanchard
• Graphic Designer: Kathryn Yingling
• Painter: David Myers
• Painter: Michael Wynn
• Propmaker: Jason W. Spradling
• Props: Forest Fagan
• Scenic Artist: Jason Glenn Jimes
• Set Dresser: Michael P. Cantrell
• Set Dresser: Phillip Joffrion
• Set Dresser: Michael Thibodeaux
• Set Dresser: William Chad Watson
• Set Dresser: T.D. Antoine
• Camera Production Assistant: Logan Hall
• Electrician: Brad Oltmann
• First Assistant Camera: Danny Horne
• First Assistant “B” Camera: Chris Fisher
• Lighting Technician: Renaldo Jackson
• Lighting Technician: D.H. Jacobs
• Rigging Grip: Daniel Ippolito
• Second Assistant Camera: Sterling Wiggins
• Second Assistant Camera: Andy Kuester
• Second Assistant Camera: Sam Membrino
• CG Artist: Lasse Hansen
• Animation: Freddy Burgos
• Animation: Toma Genov
• Compositor: Di Cai
• Compositor: Shane Flaherty
• Compositor: Saul Galbiati
• Compositor: Trent Wiker
• Compositor: Isabel Copellar
• Compositor: Chih Chung Tso
• Compositor: XueChu Zhang
• Compositor: Stephen T.Y. Wong
• Conceptual Design: Dinko Dimov
• Matte Painter: Pablo del Molino
• Matte Painter: Claus Nicholas Nielsen
• Matte Painter: Mikael Widegren
• Modeling: Tobias Danbo
• Modeling: Svetlin Tsonev
• Roto Supervisor: Dobromir Hristov
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Eugene Iliev
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Robert McGlinchey
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Line Blanner Clausen
• Special Effects Coordinator: Jack Lynch
• Hairstylist: Suzy Boyd Teekell
• Set Costumer: Gayle Merindino
• Assistant Editor: Disha Patel-Webb
• Digital Intermediate: Frank Fichera

Movie Reviews:

• reverenddr: Olympus Has Fallen is, for all practical purposes, a modern remake of Die Hard that replaces Bruce Willis with Gerard Butler and Nakatomi Tower with the White House. Butler puts in a respectable performance as Mike Banning. Director Antoine Fuqua did as well as could be done with the story, and some gripping action makes it almost watchable. But the downfall of the film was its lazy writing.

  Almost no part of Olympus Has Fallen is remotely believable. A single airplane penetrates into protected airspace around Washington D.C. and riddles the White House with bullets. It takes 15 minutes for armed reinforcements to arrive. The President of the United States risks the annihilation of a peaceful ally nation to prevent an acquaintance of his from being beaten up. I could go on. And on.

  For this reason, the movie is somewhat painful to watch. You will certainly find yourself complaining loudly at the screen. And yet the action is riveting. Watch this movie, then try to forget it. 5.5/10.

• Gimly: Out of the wealth of “_Die Hard in an (X)_” movies that are on offer, “_Die Hard in the White House_” is an…. okay one. The story is old hat and the CGI is awful, but the sequence of the initial attack on the White House isn’t just good, it’s great.

  _Final rating:★★½ – Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

• The Movie Diorama: Olympus Has Fallen ironically insults America’s national security through lunacy and patriotism. “Die Hard in the White House” claims British lads’ magazine Zoo, divulging into the testosterone-fuelled minds of its laddish readers. To be fair to them, Fuqua’s patriotic perspective of a national terrorist attack is exactly that. A ‘Die Hard’ rip-off that relies on the same narrative rhythms beat-for-beat. One man, and only one man, can save the day by gradually depleting the numbers of the antagonistic gang that harness either monetary or diplomatic motives. But where the aforementioned feature excelled, this action extravaganza flopped.

  In apparently thirteen minutes, the entire Secret Service force is massacred at the hands of Korean ultra-nationalists, at the White House, in the middle of the day. “The most secure building in the world” exclaimed one of the useless decision makers attempting to assist the Acting President. Yeah. That’s an armoury of irony right there. Olympus Has Fallen is so unrealistic in plot, that for the majority of its runtime you’re left baffled as to how any of it was conceptualised. Fully trained Security guards joyfully skip towards barrages of bullets. Protocols are broken left, right and centre. The frickin’ Army Chief of Staff sends a fleet of armed helicopters into a danger zone despite already acknowledging the opposition acquiring a ridiculously overpowered turret. Boom! Dead. The lack of intelligence for its characters is, quite frankly, insulting. Especially when this action blockbuster is supposed to be shrouded in patriotism.

  The worst offender though is the obtuse amount of horrifically rendered visual effects. From blatantly obvious green screens to clunky polygonal helicopters floating around aimlessly. It was as if the team played ‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ and directly extracted the models from it. Just woefully terrible. Fortunately Butler emanated his “tough guy” brutality in the central role, because he was continually stabbing Koreans through the skull, throat and legs. A convincingly physical role that was perfectly suited to his acting style, enabling him to destroy his opponents whilst injecting some light buoyancy. Unfortunately the screenplay is limited in the “fun” department, taking the narrative extremely seriously, which hindered the nostalgic cheesiness of 80s action blockbusters that Fuqua took inspiration from.

  Speaking of, his directing style was taut as expected, with much focus on the shenanigans taking place within the Presidential bunker. But the frenetic editing hindered his clarity. Eckhart provided strength as the President, but as usual, picks lacklustre films to repress his talent. Freeman shouted at one point and I quivered. Bassett, Mitchell and Yune were underused and Leo overacted. Oh, and who stops a countdown at three seconds? Let it go down to one! Create that suspense for flip sake!

  So yes, for thirsty action viewers who crave violence blended with one-dimensional characters, unintelligent plot points and obscene amounts of polygonal visual effects, Olympus Has Fallen has got you covered. However, if you prefer your action blockbusters with an ounce of excitement, might I suggest a minuscule film called ‘Die Hard’?