While I enjoyed Olympus Has Fallen, its first sequel, London Has Fallen and now, "Angel Has Fallen" is best suited for cable reruns. This time around, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) has become a fugitive, on the run after being falsely accused of orchestrating an assassination attempt on US President Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) that kills 18 Secret Service agents and leaves the commander-in-chief in a coma. The Oval Office is having issues with someone leaking false information to the press, not to mention the looming threat of Russia, who, we're told, meddled in a recent election. There are the private contractors, like Banning's old military friend Wade Jennings (Danny Huston), who are longing for the good ol' days of lucrative wars and government contracts and Nick Nolte, playing Banning's estranged father Clay, who is living off the grid in the woods and having some regrets about abandoning his wife and young child years ago.
All this is thrown together in a mash-up that, surprisingly, is predictable for having so much going on at all times. Oh, and I forgot to mention a nerdy vice president who might be making a power grab and an FBI agent (Jada Pinkett Smith), who is leading the hunt for Banning.
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