Tuck the kids into bed, preferably with sound plugs in their ears. Put the cat and dog out. Make a huge bowl of popcorn and grab a gigantic drink cup…with a lid. Trust me, you’re gonna need the lid on the cup. Then pop in a copy of Olympus has Fallen and prepare to be entertained.

I don’t want to spoil the movie for you, so I’ll just give a 50,000 foot overview. The White House is under attack. The bad guys have done bad things. And all the might of the US Military, D.C. Police, Secret Service, and everybody else you can think of has fallen short. Well, almost everybody. Enough of the near-spoilage.

This isn’t a movie for kids, let me also be clear about that. There’s a lot of blood and gore, and quite a few close up killings. I don’t usually go for movies with this sort of violence, but this is one where it really seemed to promote the story line. Within just a few minutes of the movie’s start I hated the primary antagonist so much I would have done anything to get him. That’s not usually an emotion that I feel. I’m usually far more detached.

This movie came to me highly recommended by one of my teenage daughters, and I frankly wasn’t that impressed with her explanation of the plot. Of course, she was trying not to spoil the movie for me…and there is so much to the intricacy of the plot that it’s hard not to spoil it. In fact, this review took five passes through that short paragraph at the start.

Get ahold of  Olympus has Fallen  and watch it. It’s one of the best movies I’ve seen in quite some time!

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