London Has Fallen

Swede came over and after a hardy lunch of enchiladas, we headed over to Half Price Books.  He found nothing, I am simply pathetic when it comes to used books!  I stumbled back to the car, my arms full of historical books on ocean going wooden ships, oil painting technics and painting theory.

Then off to see a movie neither of us had ever heard of, nor knew anything about, so a bit of a lark.

London Has Fallen, probably began production in 2014 - long before the "problem" facing the western world came about in November 2015, repeated in 2016 - and the western culture is still incapable of calling a rat, a rat.  Oh well.  They also carefully isolate the Islamic problem in the movie as well - they are just westerners responding in western ways.  Yeah, what-ever!

So, a state funeral for the PM of England, all heads of state attend, and all but the US President dies.  Historical London is destroyed by and large but the movie only cares that the chase is on to kill the President.  No Brit can be trusted as all appear on the take and want the President dead.

Very unrealistic gun battles, car crashes, air crashes, etc.  Good attack on London, though not well thought out if this was real life.

The movie is a blood bath from the open sequence to the very end!  Yeah, blood guts and gore.  One swear word I caught.  No nudity (thank you Jesus! they can make  a movie without it!).  No "situations".

Of course the message of the movie is that we will win, well that is what they want you take away.
But, the other message, is that revenge begets revenge - a message lost in this world of madness.

In all, there were 4 of us in the theater!  eepah!  A movie not destined to last for long!  Personally, I would just avoid it but :

A must see, if you like endless action adventure.
A must own if you are warped like me.
I laughed most of the way through the movie!  Very campy!