I saw this the other night because there was nothing else that caught my eye, and being set in London, where I live, I was curious.
I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, for sure, but I was expecting at least a minimum of suspense, a passable thriller that could sustain your interest for two hours. Instead there are millions of fireworks, hundreds of corpses all over town, explosions galore, some nasty S. O. B. Arab terrorists, an American president who sticks to his guns -literally-, and a predictable ending.
The thing that killed me is when the Presidential helicopter gets shot down by a bazooka or whatever it is, falls in a field, bounces, spins over, pieces fly all over the place, it breaks in two, bounces again... and yet both the President and his aide came out of it looking only a bit scruffy, with the tie knot undone, but otherwise with no broken heads, limbs, haemorrhages, etc. And, unusually, the helicopter doesn't explode, which is the norm in these cases.
But I saw it till the end because I wanted to see those terrorist b****** being dealt with, and it is surprising that in these times of Political Correctness dictatorship they are wiped out mercilessly and in every nasty way possible. Blimey, that bodyguard to the president makes Stallone, Arnie and Bruce Willis look like schoolboys playing with water pistols!
Another gun-ho propaganda in which the U. S. saves the day.
Easily forgettable.
I wasn't expecting a masterpiece, for sure, but I was expecting at least a minimum of suspense, a passable thriller that could sustain your interest for two hours. Instead there are millions of fireworks, hundreds of corpses all over town, explosions galore, some nasty S. O. B. Arab terrorists, an American president who sticks to his guns -literally-, and a predictable ending.
The thing that killed me is when the Presidential helicopter gets shot down by a bazooka or whatever it is, falls in a field, bounces, spins over, pieces fly all over the place, it breaks in two, bounces again... and yet both the President and his aide came out of it looking only a bit scruffy, with the tie knot undone, but otherwise with no broken heads, limbs, haemorrhages, etc. And, unusually, the helicopter doesn't explode, which is the norm in these cases.
But I saw it till the end because I wanted to see those terrorist b****** being dealt with, and it is surprising that in these times of Political Correctness dictatorship they are wiped out mercilessly and in every nasty way possible. Blimey, that bodyguard to the president makes Stallone, Arnie and Bruce Willis look like schoolboys playing with water pistols!
Another gun-ho propaganda in which the U. S. saves the day.
Easily forgettable.