Angel has Fallen (2019)

Director: Ric Roman Waugh

Starring: Gerard Butler, Frederick Schmidt, Danny Huston

Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.

If you’re into suspense action movies and you enjoy the ‘Bourne’ franchise, then this will surely satisfy you.

‘Angel has Fallen’ is not quite the same as its predecessors. Angel refers to the President’s top security agent, or Guardian Angel. This is Mike Banning (again very well portrayed by Gerard Butler), who is being framed for murder and attempted murder on the President.

The film features some amazing photography, and then some photography that’s so shaky, its hard to follow the action. The visual effects during the attack on the agents were incredible. The visual effects during the attack on the hospital were not that great (in fact, that entire scene was maybe a bit too much for the film’s own good). The hand to hand fight scene between the protagonist and antagonist at the end is so cliched, I wish Hollywood would finally abandon this trait. Yawn, it’s in every single action movie…

In general, this is a good film with a very good script. The action is intense and exciting. There’s maybe a bit too much comic relief for my liking – compared to the previous two films – but nevertheless still good. The film’s first half certainly was much better than the second half.

‘Angel has Fallen’ was a huge box office success, earning $513 million on a $40 million budget. Wow!

Would I watch it again? Maybe.