Title: Angel Has Fallen
Rating: NR
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Starring: Gerard Butler, Moran Freeman, Danny Huston
Runtime: 2hr 1min

What It Is: The president’s (Freeman) lead guardian angel, Secret Service agent, and family-man Mike Banning (Butler) is put under the scrutiny of the US and US security after a mysterious attempted terrorist attack, leaving the president in a coma, is blamed on him. Determined to find who framed him and prove to the world his innocence, Banning must beat multiple national intelligences to the punch as he takes refuge with his paranoid veteran father.

What We Think: It’s a typically absurd piece of the American action genre movie. Bear with me: I might be beating a dead horse, but this flick is frolicking in formulaic bliss. The theater I was in (an advanced screening), comprised of a more mature audience, seemed to really enjoy it Unfortunately, I found that I wasn’t. I felt tired. I felt like I was getting old watching this movie and the many gimmicks I’ve seen in every other well-off (or not-so-well-off) action-military movie. Blasted back to the past to the heyday of Michael Bay (per se), it was the same old quips, same type of camerawork (a lot of shaky cam, a lot of drone shots), same type of style, same type of characters, same predictable story, same lame villain. I guess what comes down to it is that there has to be something to set it apart from everything else, and it didn’t. It was admittedly a well-made thing. It looked fine. The acting was okay. It was fine. It was just… fine. And I won’t have a second thought of it.

Our Grade: D+, Obviously not my cup of tea. All them kabooms were cool, I guess. I know some people will enjoy it for what it is—in turn, I can’t say I’ll have even remembered seeing this movie after a while. I did not enjoy watching this average piece of action film, but hey, maybe you will. It happens.