Having been framed for the attempted assassination of the President, Mike Banning is on the run, trying to uncover the conspiracy behind the attack.
I’ll start with the good news: there are fewer. Endless shooting accompanied by foul language and big-time clobbering is the recipe for forgetting all of your problems for two hours; Angel is entertaining. What’s more, there are plenty of explosions with propelled, dead bodies flying all over.
Now for the bad news… Angel‘s writing and directing are unoriginal. There are no twists. At all! There is no suspense and no character development, but fear not, there are cliches aplenty. Have you ever heard before, “He knows all of our moves”? Yet, it made decent money globally. The whole Has Fallen trilogy is that side of Hollywood that sacrifices quality without blinking. It is the side of Hollywood that doesn’t appreciate the cinema experience, bins the narrative, mocks logic, defies continuity montage, disregards human intelligence, and solely focuses on M.O.N.E.Y. I could write a thesis on what the film has failed at, but as my film reviews are meant to be short, I’ll stop here. Plus, I would get depressed halfway.
The one and only Morgan Freeman is there for the money, Gerald Butler is always the right man for the job, and so is the amazing Piper Perabo. If you want to see Gerald and Piper at their absolute best, though, RocknRolla (2008) and Coyote Ugly (2000) are what you need to watch.
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