[The Patriot]

Movie review: 'Angel Has Fallen' is a new low for the silly Gerard Butler franchise

08-22-2019 09:43 AM

There is a certain mindless pleasure in the “Fallen” movies. Watching Gerard Butler muscle his way through increasingly preposterous obstacles as a Secret Service agent can be amusing and oddly transfixing at the same time. It’s mass entertainment that makes a courtesy stop in theaters before ascending to its true calling: Endless cable reruns.But whatever this franchise got away with in “Olympus Has Fallen” and “London Has Fallen,” it’s clear that the well has run dry on this idea and character.


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