When our flag falls our nation will rise.
| Cast |
Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Finley Jacobsen, Dylan McDermott, Rick Yune, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell |
| Director |
Antoine Fuqua |
| Screenplay | Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt |
| Music | Trevor Morris |
| Cinematography | Conrad W. Hall |
| Editing | John Refoua |
| Sound formats | |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| SA distributor | Independent |
| Made in | 2013 |
| Produced by | Millennium Films, Nu Image Films, West Coast Film Partners |
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| Genre | Action, thriller |
| Language | Strong impact |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Strong in context |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | Jesus Christ expletive |
| Drug abuse | Brief smoking. |
| Comments | The White House is attacked by terrorists who kidnap the president of the United States of America. A secret agent name Mike Banning uses his knowledge of the White House to rescue the president and unite Americans. |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Lara de Matos  Gerard rises to the challenge. | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Amande de Lange Aksie kom eerste en ook die president. | 10 | |
| Cape Times Todd McCarthy Cat and mouse thriller. | 10 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs I was certainly never bored and did get caught up to one degree or another with some of the action sequences. | 10 | |
| Metacritic.com 29 critics | 8 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 130 critics | 11 |  |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer It's far from original, but Olympus Has Fallen benefits from Antoine Fuqua's tense direction and a strong performance from Gerard Butler -- which might just be enough for action junkies. | 10 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 11 | |
| Movie Review Intelligence 40 critics | 9 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 14022 Netizens A Very Strong Razzie Nominee | 14 |  |
Average .. 52% | 10 | |