London Has Fallen

"Although not especially well-regarded by history, 2013's Olympus Has Fallen delivered a very watchable stream of slickly executed violent action movie tropes. The old school swagger on display helped push the film beyond its initial status as the Pepsi to White House Down's Coca-Cola."

"For all the slicing and dicing of the editing, narrative momentum grinds to a trudge after the synthetic spectacle of the capital's undoing."

"Bloodthirsty, derivative and xenophobic nonsense."

"It's all so overly macho that it plays like a camp pleasure-cruise."

"There is some surreal fun at the beginning as everything collapses... But then it's the same thing over again."

"Make American movies great again. You can start by boycotting this one."

"Represents a geopolitical obliteration fantasy flushed from the mind of the angriest and dumbest and most conspiracy-minded among us."

"Plausible at its core, if not in its details, which is partly why it succeeds in laying claim to an audience's attention for the entirety of its swift running time."

"It starts off as a taut, straight-from-the-headlines thriller, but eventually devolves into a giddy, cartoonish fantasy, where the world's complex problems can be solved with a punch to the face and a follow-up wisecrack."

"It's a film that doesn't so much invite you to switch off your brain as take it out and dump it in the nearest popcorn box."