London Has Fallen

"The world's leaders have assembled. So have their enemies."

2016 1h 39m EN

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★6.2TMDB · 5,238

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Synopsis

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In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

“The world's leaders have assembled. So have their enemies.”

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Cast

Gerard Butler
Mike Banning
Aaron Eckhart
President Benjamin Asher
Angela Bassett
Lynne Jacobs
Morgan Freeman
Alan Trumbull
Melissa Leo
Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
Robert Forster
General Edward Clegg
Sean O'Bryan
NSA Deputy Director Ray Monroe
Radha Mitchell
Leah Banning

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Babak Najafi
Writers: Christian Gudegast, Katrin Benedikt, Creighton Rothenberger
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America, United Kingdom, Bulgaria

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $60M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 3.4× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 10 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: United States of America, United Kingdom, Bulgaria.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Has Fallen Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Babak Najafi, shot by Ed Wild. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Trevor Morris. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Michael J. Duthie shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Babak Najafi directs. Ed Wild behind the camera. Trevor Morris scores. Michael J. Duthie cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America, United Kingdom, Bulgaria. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $60M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 3.4× over at the box office.
3Released 10 years ago.
4International production across 3 countries: United States of America, United Kingdom, Bulgaria.
5Part of the "Has Fallen Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Directed by Babak Najafi, shot by Ed Wild. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Trevor Morris. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Michael J. Duthie shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart and Angela Bassett carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "The world's leaders have assembled. So have their enemies.".
11IMDB entry: tt3300542 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12Classified under 11 themes, including "london, england", "usa president", "sequel", "terrorism".
13Released under 12 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Ed Wild
Original score: Trevor Morris
Editing: Michael J. Duthie
Production design: Joel Collins
Costume design: Stephanie Collie
Makeup / hair: Lynda Armstrong
VFX supervisor: Geoff D.E. Scott
Sound: Stuart Hilliker
Stunt coordinator: Steve Griffin
Runtime: 99 min · 1h 39m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $60,000,000
Box office: $205,754,447
Return: 343% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: London Has Fallen (2016)

Part of

Has Fallen Collection

"Has Fallen" is a series of action-thriller films following the adventures of Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, President of the United States Benjamin Asher, and Vice President of the United States Allan Trumbull.

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Reno2016-06-14
★ 6/10
From an action packed flick to a game mode! The first film was a decent entertainer, I kind of liked that and a box office hit as well. So the producers saw an opportunity to bring another film and yep, this film did slightly better than the original, but the product was qualityless. The graphics were just okay, but overall very poor in those blow-up scenes which were the most essential for a theme like this. Not all, though some of the action sequences were terrible and the story was very weak. In fact, there's no story, the whole film was an action- thriller just like the previous film. But that's how this theme revolves, yet as a one, it is a bit disappointing follow-up without surprises. Anyway, I'm with the original film director who backed out of the project for giving him a bad script to direct. So the London is the latest victim of the plot for the US president's assassination. Particularly this 2nd part looked so much more alike a computer game than actors who are exhibiting their roles. Like the London is a battlefield and level after level the story making its progress till the game over, but we know who wins in the end. I don't know whose performance was much better, because I did not find anyone with par to appreciate. What this film did at the box office was a miracle, so I don't think the filmmakers go for another script anytime soon. But if they do, I'm wondering which capitol would be the next victim of a terror attack. Expecting Tokyo or Canberra, especially Mumbai would be an ideal location. This is not a bad film, you can try it once, but watching it like sitting next to who's with xbox joystick. 6/10
Gimly2017-06-21
★ 4/10
If Olympus Has Fallen wasn't big enough and dumb enough for you, try London Has Fallen! Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
Filipe Manuel Neto2023-04-03
★ 1/10
Real name of this film: How to insult half the allied countries in the name of one's own ego. Occasionally, American cinema seems to need an injection of idiotic nationalism. “Olympus Has Fallen” did that, but there are still some technical and entertaining qualities there. This film fails to do the same, besides treating other countries (especially the British) like morons. And so, Americans continue to think they are the greatest nation in the world and to compete with others like teenagers measuring their… you get the point. The film is a sequel to “Olympus” and shows how the American president will escape by a hair (it can't even be considered a spoiler to say this, because the plot is so cliché that we already know more or less what will happen here in the act in which we decided to see the film!) to a terrorist attack which, in fact, is more like an act of war. Yes, a terrorist decides to send an army to kill Western prime ministers and presidents who gather in London for a state funeral and all the police and security agencies in the West were asleep and didn't see them. As expected, God saves the Queen and the entire Windsor family, who are not even targeted by the attacks and continue to have their tea in Buckingham without appearing in the film. On the other hand (or maybe a bonus?) the British still have the unusual pleasure of seeing the French president become food for fish in the River Thames... but, judging by the continued protests in France for a few years until now, perhaps the French are not mourning their loss... I know I'm being deeply sarcastic, but there's no other way to watch this movie without feeling deeply insulted. The way the film places the USA as the greatest thing in the world and belittles allied countries, (but) direct competitors in defense and economy (Canada, Germany, UK, France, Japan, Italy etc.) makes us want to watch the US committing failure after failure which, in real life, ends up happening. Seeing all the international leaders casually strolling and dating when, in real life, they would be surrounded by security guards on their way to the ceremony is a very incorrect idea of how these events are organised. But it's wrong to expect a movie like this to care about things as silly and puerile as that thing called verisimilitude. When you have tons of action and a world-renowned city being blown up like a village in Syria or Afghanistan, what does it matter if all that stuff is credible? There might even be Mickey Mouse there with a machine gun! Who cares? As for the cast… what can we say? We can say that, certainly, the fee was good, and that the film did wonders to the bank balance of the actors, in particular Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman and Gerard Butler, who did not have to make any effort to play the characters and who are here for the money. And if we take into account that Freeman is the most outstanding actor, and even he is far from revealing the enormous talent that we know he has, that says a lot about the overall performance of the cast, doesn't it? The film tries everything to entertain, but fails. The weakness of the dialogues and the meager attempts to introduce humor would have deserved a punch in the face of the screenwriter who wrote them, who must have thought that we, the audience, don't have a brain. The action scenes are noisy, with the Americans running around London like a bunch of cowboys shooting and blowing things up, but the special effects and CGI are extraordinarily weak. Editing is another problem: unlike the previous film, which practically threw us into the middle of the action without much foreplay, this film drags on in the introduction without it being very necessary. What do we care if the Canadian PM's daughter fails her driving test, or if the German Chancellor likes men in uniform? And if Freeman's character is so fond of fishing, after this film he can go to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and choose the biggest boat he can find there.