History Film / OlympusHasFallen

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A sequel movie, ''Film/LondonHasFallen'', was released worldwide on March 4, 2016.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The North Koreans' attack on Washington D.C. was payback on the United States government for imposing economic sanctions on their country, which for many decades made it incredibly difficult for North Korea to gain access to food and energy.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Banning offs Forbes once the latter lies to Kang on the walkie-talkie that Banning is dead]].

** [[spoiler: Forbes follows the aforementioned plan because his son was killed.]]

** Trumbull thinks that talking to the Premier of North Korea can convince the latter to call off the North Korean terrorists' invasion upon the White House. The Premier has no actual military power, only the supreme leader Kim Jong-un himself can command the Korean People's Army, and at the time of the film's release Kim Jong-un would have had no interest in directly talking to the U.S. Government.

** Pop quiz; you're a Secret Service agents inside the White House, behind cover. The bad guys have overlapping fields of fire on you from two machine guns, in an entrenched position. What do you do? If the answer is ''not'' [[spoiler:run out of the doors straight into machine gun fire to try and shoot them with your handgun, even after watching a dozen or two of your brother agents getting cut down doing exactly that, then you're smarter than the agents in the film.]]

* [[INeverToldYouMyName I Never Told You His Name]]: [[spoiler: Forbes]] accidentally clues in Banning that he's working for the terrorists by dropping Kang's name, which only Banning, the terrorists, and the people they've told would know. And Banning knows ''he'' didn't tell him.

* ArtisticLicense: The entire Cerberus code plot. They state the Cerberus computer is isolated in the White House, so they can't change the codes... but if it's isolated, how does it tell the [=ICBMs=] to self-destruct? Furthermore, even if it does have some way to transmit, but they can't change the codes for some other reason, what's to stop them from cutting the line? The only way this becomes even remotely plausible is if the White House has a transmitter powerful enough to transmit wireless to any part of the planet hidden... somewhere.

* [[INeverToldYouMyName I Never Told You His Name]]: [[spoiler: Forbes]] accidentally clues in Banning that he's working for the terrorists by dropping Kang's name, which only Banning, the terrorists, and the people they've told would know. And Banning knows ''he'' didn't tell him.

* ArtisticLicensePolitics: The South Korean prime minister is primarily a ceremonial office concerned with domestic affairs. A meeting with the U.S. president would call for the South Korean president.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: {{In-universe}}, someone refers to the pound sign as "hashtag", causing confusion to the non-Twitter user at the keyboard. ("It's Shift-3!")

[[JustForFun Because]] [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] [[IThoughtItMeant just wrecked the entirety of-- wait, wrong media.]]

*** [[spoiler:To be fair, the majority of agents were taken out after the garbage trucks deployed, so it can be argued that they were moving to predesignated positions to respond to an attack by infantry.]]

* {{Peace Through Superior Firepower}}: Horribly inverted: [[spoiler: Kang sets America's nukes to detonate in their silos to blanket the country in nuclear fullout. He almost succeeds but thanks to Banning, his plan is foiled and he saves the day and the country]].

* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Kang's henchmen use flashy martial arts during the White House attack to their advantage against President Asher's poorly prepared staff and associates.

* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Kang's henchmen use flashy martial arts during the White House attack.

* BigNo: President Asher when Banning fails to save the first lady in the prologue.
** Asher screams this again when one of the Korean spies execute an American nurse.

''Olympus Has Fallen'' is a 2013 action thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua, and starring Creator/GerardButler, Aaron Eckhart, and Creator/MorganFreeman.

* MisplacedNamesPoster: Aaron Eckhart is Creator/GerardButler, Creator/MorganFreeman is Aaron Eckhart, and Gerard Butler is Morgan Freeman.

''Olympus Has Fallen'' is a 2013 action thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua, and starring Creator/GerardButler, Aaron Eckhart, and MorganFreeman.

* MisplacedNamesPoster: Aaron Eckhart is Creator/GerardButler, MorganFreeman is Aaron Eckhart, and Gerard Butler is Morgan Freeman.

* DisposableWoman: [[spoiler: Ashley Judd's character is pretty much only in the movie to get killed and give Banning motivation to become a brooding BadAss. Also the poor unnamed intern who was shot as an example in front of the hostages to ensure their cooperation.]]

** {{Peace Through Superior Firepower}}: Horribly inverted: [[spoiler: Kang sets America's nukes to detonate in their silos to blanket the country in nuclear fullout. He almost succeeds but thanks to Banning, his plan is foiled and he saves the day and the country]].

* {{Badass}}: Mike.

** And averted when after the first two F-22s were shot down, a third takes off and shoots down the C-130 with an AIM-120 AMRAAM. In the movie, the pilot closed to within visual range before firing his missile. To the uninformed this might seem as an error, the AIM-120 is advertised as having a range of 30 to 100 nautical miles depending on the model. However the 30 to 100 nautical miles range, is at altitudes of above 10000m and fired at an approaching aircraft. In reality if fired, as in the movie, at treetop altitude and from behind the target, due to the denser atmosphere and the lower relative velocity, the AMRAAM would have a range a little over 5 nautical miles. The Surface-Launched AMRAAM, which is basically a standard AMRAAM fired from the ground, used in the NASAMS system (also depicted in the movie) demonstrated a maximum engagement range of 8 nautical miles. To reach 21 nautical miles SL-AMRAAM-ER was introduced which swaps the engine of AMRAAM for the one in the Evolved SeaSparrow, creating a missile twice as big as the normal AMRAAM.