2013 · action · thriller · disaster
Olympus Has Fallen
Directed by Antoine Fuqua2h 0m2013
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.
Our read: Olympus Has Fallen (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller · disaster entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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