An average movie

To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of action flicks but since this movie had been fairly successful at the box-office, I thought I might as wel check it out. Eventually, even though it was rather well made and even though there was a really impressive cast involved, I can’t say I was really convinced by the damned thing. First of all, and that's not an actual critic, it was actually quite violent (apparently, more than 160 characters were killed) so they didn’t put their gloves on and really earned their R rating and I guess it must have pleased the fans of the genre. My wife thought it was way too much but it didn't bother me though. I mean, if you decide to make an action flick, you might as well really go all the way making something slightly more realistic. No, what really bothered me was the fact that the story was just way over-the-top and rather boring. Basically, it was pretty much 'Die Hard in the White House' which wasn't actually a bad idea but, even though Gerard Butler was physically convincing and delivered a believable special forces soldier, his character didn’t come near John McClane and I just didn’t care much about the guy. Furthermore, in this age when global terrorism is displayed on a daily basis on the news, I didn't buy the fact that a North-Korean guy would launch such attack. Anyway, to conclude,  I thought it was actually rather underwhelming but I have to admit that you might end up enjoying it much more than I did if you really like the genre.

5/10