Olympus has Fallen

Last night I finally got around to watching Olympus Has Fallen starring Gerrard Butler and Aaron Eckhart. I was hoping for the “Die Hard meets the White House” treatment as promised; but overall I was very disappointed with the plot holes of the film. It started off nicely with the death of the First Lady, which I thought would probably create some friction later on in the film; but that turned out not to have happened. I really enjoyed the Gatling guns on the plane; and thought that this assault needed to be a lot longer. But the main disappointment was the fact that the terrorists managed to get hold of the launch codes! Shouldn’t the President have suffered some sort of accountability for allowing the terrorists to activate the nukes? And shouldn’t this have prompted the Speaker of the Houses’ decision that the nukes were compromised, and let all hell loose to deactivate them regardless of the consequences to the President? And shouldn’t the President have some sort of personal GPS tracker so that the Pentagon could establish if he was one of the eleven people that boarded the evac chopper? I was really hoping that How It Should Have Ended was going to have a go at closing the holes in the plot; but they’re tied up with other projects. Let’s hope that Jamie Foxx has a better go in White House Down.