In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike
Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Disgraced Secret Service agent (and former presidential guard) Mike
Banning finds himself trapped inside the White House in the wake of a
terrorist attack; using his inside knowledge, Banning works with
national security to rescue the President from his kidnappers.
Storyline
After the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious
circumstances, all leaders of the Western world must attend his funeral.
But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a
deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a
terrifying vision of the future. The President of the United States, his
formidable secret service head and an English MI-6 agent who trusts no
one are the only people that have any hope of stopping it.
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London Bridge Is Falling Down
As well as several
other well-known London landmarks in this 'comic book' movie which is
heavy on the pyrotechnics and short on coherent narrative. Gerard Butler
is perfect as the President's bodyguard and expectant father. He is
trying to retire but is pressed back into service for a funeral for a
world leader, in this case the Prime Minister of Great Britain. All
world leaders assemble in London for the funeral which turns out to be a
booby trap set by a vengeful Al Qaeda leader.
Do you like escapist entertainment, the kind in which things blow up and have a high body count? If not, stay home. But I find this type of fantasy cathartic - the good guys win and the bad guys lose, with buckets of blood and bad guys biting the dust in virtually every scene. And at the end, our hero Butler emerges unscathed after getting shot, falling down an elevator shaft, getting t-boned in an SUV by an assault vehicle and surviving a helicopter crash.
Great stuff. Like I said, not for all tastes but it's a nice change of pace from reality.
Do you like escapist entertainment, the kind in which things blow up and have a high body count? If not, stay home. But I find this type of fantasy cathartic - the good guys win and the bad guys lose, with buckets of blood and bad guys biting the dust in virtually every scene. And at the end, our hero Butler emerges unscathed after getting shot, falling down an elevator shaft, getting t-boned in an SUV by an assault vehicle and surviving a helicopter crash.
Great stuff. Like I said, not for all tastes but it's a nice change of pace from reality.
