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Action movies don't get dumber, louder or meaner than "London Has Fallen," a repellent and brutish action sequel to the 2013 shoot-'em-up "Olympus Has Fallen."
Top Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is again tasked to protect President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart), this time when he and other world leaders travel to London for the funeral of Britain's prime minister. Then a well-coordinated terrorist attack is unleashed, killing the leaders of Canada, France, Italy, Germany and Japan — while also blowing up Westminster Abbey and a good chunk of the Thames. (For a franchise that in its first installment knocked over the Washington Monument, this wholesale violence is nothing.)
Banning must get the president to safety while he and Vice President Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) and his situation-room officials deal with the vaguely Middle Eastern mastermind (Alon Aboutboul) behind the attack.
Director Babak Najafi keeps things moving, though that usually means giving Banning enough targets to shoot with the dull predictability and visual sense of a first-person-shooter video game. The script's unrelenting machismo and xenophobic dialogue give you a good sense of what a Donald Trump presidency might look like.
'London Has Fallen'
Opening Friday, March 4, at theaters everywhere; rated R for strong violence and language throughout; 99 minutes.