He uses the F-word a lot, too, which must be part of his Secret Service training.Īaron Eckhart, an actor with the gravitas of a duck, is President Benjamin Asher, who has just welcomed the president of South Korea and his entourage when the assault begins. When truckloads of demon commandos start spilling across the lawn, mowing down guards and making for the portico, Butler's Mike Banning is already hoofing it over there, dodging bullets and warning bystanders to take cover.
A desk that just happens to look onto the front gate of the White House. Gerard Butler, brooding and burly, is Olympus Has Fallen's John McClane - a tarnished Secret Service agent with a desk job at the Treasury. Any semblance of seriousness and verisimilitude suggested by the marketing campaign is quickly forgotten once director Antoine Fuqua's enjoyably tacky Die Hard-on-the-Potomac gets under way. We don't really need to see the first family's home and the nation's Capitol under siege, do we? The trailer for Olympus Has Fallen is actually kind of creepy: the White House under attack, Pennsylvania Avenue exploding with firebombs, the Washington Monument clipped by enemy aircraft.
