“Olympus Has Fallen” was a pornographically violent crapfest that
took the standard “Die Hard” template, located it within the confines of a
White House being attacked by Korean terrorists and tried to use such sights as
the White House in flames, hundreds of corpses on the front lawn and the female
Secretary of Defense being brutally beaten as the inspiration for the ensuing
orgy of shootings, stabbings, neck-breakings and quips delivered by star Gerard
Butler. A truly odious work, it wasn’t even the best White House-set “Die
Hard” knock-off released in 2013 the Channing Tatum/Jamie Foxx vehicle “White
House Down” was an infinitely better film that didn t make you feel as if you