For those who may not know, “London has Fallen” is a sequel to “Olympus has Fallen,” one of two terrorists take over the White House movies that came out in 2013. It wasn’t a huge box office success, but apparently it did well enough to warrant a sequel. This time President Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and his top secret service agent, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) are visiting London when it comes under a terrorist attack. Banning’s mission is to keep the President alive during the ordeal.

Did anyone read online about there being a rapid fan base for the first movie that were demanding a sequel? Just checking. If so, please leave a comment at the end of this article. Four different writers are given credit for writing “London has Fallen”. If you think the events in the movie are chaotic, you can only imagine what the writing process must have been like. The movie is incredibly far-fetched and you can let that go, but it keeps pushing the boundaries in the believable and busts through them. Be warned, your eyes may roll back so far in the back of your head, you may not get them to come forward again.

Throughout the movie you get title ups on locations and times and pretty much for all the characters in the movie and there are a lot to keep track. The setup for the movie is nothing out of the ordinary, it does take a little while to get there before everything goes to hell. For laughs are the one-liners you’d expect from an action movie like this. Don’t expect to have much of an attachment to any of the characters, if one of them dies chances are you won’t care. Don’t expect much logic either. Hey, you are the President of the United States on the run in the streets of London from terrorist who want to kill you, do you maybe think it is a good idea to remove your jacket and tie so you don’t stand out so much?

The argument for a movie like this could be, “hey, it’s just mindless action and violence, sit back and enjoy it.” That’s fair, but you can watch that almost anywhere these days. You can punch up scenes like that on YouTube. Why spend that kind of money on a movie ticket? “London has Fallen” really did not have to be made and in turn, you don’t have to go out and see it. It is rated R for strong violence and language throughout.