London Has Fallen Film Review

Finished watching London Has Fallen directed by Babak Najafi, and staring Alon Aboutboul, Aaron Eckhart, Gerard Butler, Radha Mitchell, Angela Bassestt and Waleed Zuaiter. The film opens up to the wedding being attended by arms dealer Aamir Barkawi (Alon Aboutboul), where the American military bombard the location with an air raid hoping to kill Aamir. The film then flashy to two years later were American president Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and his top Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) who is preoccupied with sorting out the new bedroom for his yet to be born baby with his wife Leah (Radha Mitchell). Soon later news comes through that the British Prime Minister has died, leading to Benjamin and Mike along with the Director of the Secret Service Lynne Jacobs (Angela Bassestt) travel to London along many other world leaders to attend the funeral. While in London all of the world leaders get caught up in a terror attack orchestrated by Barkawi who survived the air raid with his son Kamran (Waleed Zuaiter) leading the charge in London in order to seek revenge on the American President. Overall this was a decent film as it shows of some great action but doesn't deliver as well on its character development. The character interactions between Mike and Benjamin are good as it helps show the friendship between the two. However the one liners used between the two feel out of place even though they are played up for laughs. The action and fighting choreography  is great especially with the attention to detail that is elevated by how well the camerawork keeps up throughout. While shots such as the point of view shots taken from Mike's point of view helps to show how well trained Mike is. Additionally the siemesly continuous shot of Mike and the SAS feels as if the camera is another member of the squad. 6.5/10.