Angel Has Fallen
Angel Has Fallen struggles to bring greater depth to the otherwise (mostly) enjoyably cheesy throwback elements the franchise is known for.
When theTakenfilms run out of novel characters to have " taken " , they rip offThe Fugitiveand sent Bryan Mills on the run inTaken 3 , instead . Takentrilogy cowriter Robert Mark Kamen has now hold out and done the same matter on theHas Fallenmovies , which antecedently followed Gerard Butler ’s Mike Banning as he resist off terrorist attacks on the White House and London inOlympus Has FallenandLondon Has Fallen , respectively . Fortunately , in the shell ofAngel Has go down , the solution are typically just generic with flashes of inspiration , rather than being an tongue-tied mess . Angel Has Fallenstruggles to bring greater depth to the otherwise ( mostly ) pleasantly cheesy throwback component the dealership is known for .
Angel Has Fallenfinds Mike at a crossroads in his career . The old age of wearing and tear from operate in the battlefield have begun to take their toll , force him to rely on increasingly heavy United States Department of State of medication to comfort his pain . And although he ’s the favorite to become the Secret Service ’s next music director , the prospect of being figuratively chain down to a desk task is , in some way , more terrific to Mike than having to make do with job like recur migraines and spinal damage . However , when an character assassination attempt is made against the newly - elected U.S. chair , Allan Trumbull ( Morgan Freeman ) , and Mike is framed for the flak , he ’s force to drive his personal issues to the back - burner and expose the real threat before it ’s too recent .
Written by Kamen , Matt Cook ( Patriots Day ) , and managing director Ric Roman Waugh ( from a story by series writers Katrin Benedikt and Creighton Rothenberger),Angel Has Fallendeviates from its predecessors by conflate its ' ninety - way natural process image with more serious storytelling , standardized to what Waugh did on the 2013 Dwayne Johnson vehicleSnitch . The sequel also wisely shifts off from the comical jingoism of the first two movies , presumably in an effort to feel less out of touch with the current political climate . In its place , Angel Has Fallentries to address both the physical and psychological cost that soldiers , secret service agents , and like political science servants are entrust to pay once their jobs are fetch up . Perhaps unsurprisingly , this attempt comes off feeling empty in a cinema that , like the ones before it , is more invested in show poppycock go boom and Butler stab bad guys in the cervix than examine subjects like PTSD with any existent nuance .
That ’s not for lack of prove on Nick Nolte ’s part . The doer costars as Mike ’s father Clay , a riotous Vietnam War veteran who ’s been living on the route for much of his boy ’s biography . In plus to bring some weightiness to the scenes where Mike confront his old man about his absence , Nolte helps to liven up the minutes inAngel Has Fallen , and leave you wishing the whole film was a sidekick adventure with Mike and Clay , a laIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade . Other new additions like Danny Huston as Wade Jennings ( Mike ’s old military buddy ) and Jada Pinkett Smith as FBI broker Helen Thompson ( the Tommy Lee Jones to Butler ’s Harrison Ford ) pull up stakes a infirm opinion , but through no fault of the actors . Meanwhile , these plastic film keep to have little to no stake in educate Mike ’s wife , Leah , as a character , and even remould her here ( with Piper Perabo taking over from Radha Mitchell ) with piddling fanfare .
LikeOlympus Has shine , Angel Has Fallen ’s great assets are its radius - rated action successiveness . Waugh was a stunt performer for X before he started directing and continues to put his experience to dear utilisation , delivering generally well - construct ( and often explosion - heavy ) set pieces that vary from swarms of laggard assail a lake to chase scenes involving lurch trucks , and ( of course ) old - fashioned gunplay . The spectacle is n’t as imaginative or slick in its figure as that in other modern action series ( likeJohn Wick ) , but it ’s a dance step up from the moving picture ’s political drama . Angel Has Fallenthankfully drops the blatant Islamophobia ofLondon Has fall , but its stabs at political relevance ( which include consultation to Russian hindrance in U.S. elections and a story screw thread about tension between the country ) are muddled at best and backwards at worst .
Where the otherHas Fallenfilms were content to be junky action movies harken back to the music genre ’s popular style and timber in the ' 90 , Angel Has Fallenmakes a respectable , but only part successful effort to acquire and mature the dealership ( Butler has even referred to the movie as"our version of Logan " ) . The termination is a average riff onThe Fugitiveelevated by able action , an out of the blue unassailable Nolte performance , and the movie ’s efforts to comprehend a minuscule profoundly into Mike Banning and what makes him tick . It ’s far from a must - see in theaters - even for the fans of this series - but , as far as likely finales go , this one come surprisingly close to sticking the landing place
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Angel Has Fallenis now playing in U.S. theaters . It is 121 second retentive and is rated gas constant for furiousness and language throughout .
Angel Has Fallen is the third instalment in the " Fallen " franchise . Gerard Butler stars as Secret Service agent Mike Banning , who must clear his name after being frame in for an character assassination attempt on the President of the United States . The picture show sport an ensemble cast that include Morgan Freeman , Jada Pinkett Smith , and Tim Blake Nelson .
Nick Nolte in Angel Has Fallen
