Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) is president. Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is his secret service body guard who has fallen from grace. In this film the North Koreans, disguised as South Koreans, take over the only bunker in the country that controls nuclear missiles with self destruct instructions (if there is such a thing). Just so happens the three people who know the three separate codes are there too.Only Bruce Willis (the younger one) or a reasonable facsimile that looks like Gerald Butler, can save this country. Morgan Freeman plays the ineffective Speaker of the House who becomes president when things go badly.Plenty of action. On the film scale: better than "Red Dawn" (new one). Not as good as "Die Hard." Of course it is better than the recent "Die Hard" offering unless demolition derby is your thing. Improbable script, but the characters and action made this formulaic film worth viewing.Parental Guide: F-bombs. No sex or nudity. Note: on the TV channels it uses "Whitehouse" instead of "White House."

Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckartt are superb in"Olympus Has Fallen."Let me start by saying that this is a good action movie. It reminds me of the action movies from the '80's and '90's, with it's adrenaline pumping suspenseful opening to it's nail biting finish, this movie delivers.This may contain some spoilers.Mike banning is a secret service agent, part of the United States President's detail.But after Mike fails to save a loved one,he is demoted to desk duty. But now that's all about to change, one year later the white house is soon under attack by terrorist, killing all the service agents and it's up to Mike to save the day and take out the trash.The action scenes are spectacular, and it's nice to see an action movie with some character development.Morgan Freeman was good as Vice President Trumble, all his scenes are mostly in the Pentagon, but he was great.Aaron Eckartt was also good as the President, he didn't do very much because he was tied up for most of the movie but he was still good.Gerard Butler is very good as Mike Banning the hero of the film, it's great to see him kick ass in this, all his fight scenes and funny one liners were spot on.Ashley Judd has a very small roll in this as the President's wife but even though her part was small I liked her scenes.This film is directed well by Antwone Fuqua probably his best next to The Equalizer, He just did a damn good job.Rick Yune is great as the main baddie of the film, I haven't seen him in very much but this by far is his best work yet.Overall I very much enjoyed it, and I own it on DVD, and it's sequel, London Has Fallen is just as awesome.If your an action movie fan I think you'll probably like it. Definitely give this one a look, you won't be disappointed.I give it a 7/10 Ii's one cool action flick.

Only one big difference, Die Hard was really good, this movie flat out sucked! Only people with 3 brain cells would like this movie and believe something like it could actually happen in real life. It does have a good cast, shame on them for lowering themselves to such an awful plot! The bad guy North Korean is the same dude from Karate Kid Part II and that terrible James Bond movie from about 10 years ago. Poor guy always gets cast as the bad guy. Don't even waste your time watching this movie for free if its on TV!!!!

Marketed as "Die Hard in the White House", the plot of this action thriller has a lone Secret Service agent taking on North Korean terrorists who have invaded the White House (codename Olympus), holding the President hostage. The film features several gripping action scenes and some of the smaller moments (a bullet-ridden US flag) are very effective, however, the project would have benefited from all the 'Die Hard' parallels being far less pronounced. As it is, Gerard Butler sorely lacks the charisma Bruce Willis brought to the iconic 1988 film, there is significantly less comic relief, and try as Rick Yune does with the part, he is no Hans Gruber. Issues of credibility weigh heavily more against 'Olympus Has Fallen' too; whereas Willis only had to take on board a handful of terrorists in 'Die Hard', here Butler comes off almost without scratch after intense encounters with three or four times as many antagonists! To the film's credit, it does at least attempt to throw some character study in the midst with Butler haunted by an earlier incident in which he was able to save the President, but not his wife, in a road accident. Butler's rapport with the President's son feels very real too. Then again, the film never maximises the potential of Butler and the son knowing all the ins and outs and secret passageways of the White House. Butler's big advantage here is his training rather than his insider knowledge, which in turns renders the film far less interesting than it could have been even if there is a nary a boring moment in the action-packed ride.