Under normal circumstances, I would question this film’s
very existence. The latest from modern B-movie kingpins Millennium Films,
starring perennial B-movie favourite Gerard Butler, is the continuation and
(hopeful) finale to a series that didn’t even need to be a series in the first
place. Hell, after the utter bullshit that was the previous entry in London Has Fallen, I was outright dreading having to sit through more straight-faced
jingoism.
But then again, as someone who does love a good redemptive
sequel, maybe replacing the bulk of the writer’s room and the director’s chair
for this follow-up means we can leave behind the alarmingly blatant racism of
Gerard Vs. Fuckheadistan, and get back to the hard-hitting action thrills that
made Olympus solid, if not entirely memorable. That’s the theory, at least.
