Angel Has Fallen

Movie 🎥 Review: “Angel Has Fallen”. Critics gave it a 39% the users an 94%. Rated: R with a running time of 2 hrs and 1 min with an IMDb of 6.7/10. Cast: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lance Reddick, Tim Blake Nelson, Piper Perabo, Nick Nolte, and Danny Huston.

Authorities take Secret Service agent Mike Banning into custody for the failed assassination attempt of U.S. President Allan Trumbull. After escaping from his captors, Banning must evade the FBI and his own agency to find the real threat to the president. Desperate to uncover the truth, he soon turns to unlikely allies to help clear his name and save the country from imminent danger.

Angel Has Fallen is a 2019 American action thriller film directed by Ric Roman Waugh. It is the third installment in the Fallen film series, following Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016). The film was officially announced in October 2016, and Roman Waugh was hired in July 2017. New members of the cast were added in early 2018 and filming began in February of that year around Bulgaria and the United Kingdom. The film was released in the United States on August 23, 2019, by Lionsgate.

The movie takes a short time getting up to speed but when it does its full on pedal to the floor action with Butler throwing himself into the fray against heavy odds no matter the cost.

What makes this film stand out from the others is that narrative is more plausible than other action films and you do see Butler dealing with the results of his profession. This is not a Teflon Super Hero who has bullets bounce off his chest. This is a man who bears his physical and psychological scars from his years in service and has a hard time letting go of the work even though it is what he believes he is best suited for.

Morgan Freeman gives a very strong performance as does Nick Nolte who stole many of the scenes in which he was in and provided some real Wild Card comic relief and action to the film.

In a summer of many Over Promising and Under-Delivering films Angel Has Fallen is a refreshing exception as it was an enjoyable thrill ride from start to finish and I sure hope we have not seen the last of Agent Banning. Definitely worth the cost of a theater ticket. Forget the critics rating, they’re missing it big time! The users rating got it right this time!

BTW - be sure and stay for the scene after the ending credits start………you won’t want to miss it!!