ANGEL HAS FALLEN **
Dir: Ric Roman Waugh (15, 120 mins)
Amazingly, after Olympus and London Has Fallen, there is still a need to make another film with Gerard Butler’s stabby President-protector Mike Banning. The previous films were sub-Die Hard actioners filled with gung-ho imperialism, dodgy quips and Butler’s weirdly unengaging fisticuffs, and now there’s another one. This time, however, it is the President’s bodyguard who has to go on the run, when he is framed following a failed drone assassination attempt on Morgan Freeman’s White House dweller. Now he has to evade the FBI, CIA, save his wife Piper Perabo and his family and uncover the real culprits. Jada Pinkett Smith and Danny Huston give chase and Butler enlists the help of his dad, a very grizzled Nick Nolte. Many explosions follow, with diminishing returns as this feels like it’s mostly from a 90s straight-to-DVD Steven Seagal movie. If you liked the last two and their brand of B-movie action antics, this will please, but this franchise definitely needs to fall.
Opens Aug 21
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