Olympus Has Fallen is a 2013 American action-thriller film. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, it stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman. The film depicts a North Korean-led guerilla assault on the White House, and focuses on a Secret Service agent who tries to stop them. Olympus Has Fallen was released on March 22, 2013.
Director:
Antoine Fuqua
Writers:
Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt
Stars:
Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman
Former U.S. Army Ranger Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is the lead Secret Service agent assigned to head the Presidential Detail. He maintains a personal, friendly relationship with President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart), First Lady Margaret Asher (Ashley Judd) and particularly their son Connor Asher (Finley Jacobsen). During a Christmas evening drive from Camp David to a campaign fundraiser, a tree falls in front of the President’s convoy, making the vehicles skid out of control on black ice
on a bridge. The lead vehicle in the convoy falls into an icy river
while the Presidential limousine teeters on the edge for a minute before
falling as well with Margaret still unconscious inside. Banning is able
to save President Asher, but Margaret and two other agents die in the
crash.The attack has been masterminded by Kang Yeonsak (Rick Yune), an ex-North Korean
terrorist who appears to be motivated by hope for a reunification of
Korea. Kang seeks to use Asher’s hostage status as leverage to force the
U.S. military to withdraw from the Korean Peninsula, allowing the civil war to end. He also seeks to destroy all of America’s nuclear weapons
in their silos and turn the United States into an irradiated wasteland
as revenge for the death of his parents when his mother was killed by an
American landmine and his father was executed for crimes against North
Korea. To accomplish this, he requires the access codes
to a system in the bunker called Cerberus: a fail-safe device that
self-detonates any U.S. nuclear missiles during an abort, which are held
by three top government officials within the bunker, including the
President. Asher orders the other two officials to reveal their codes to
save their lives, certain that he will not give up his code.After Banning disables Kang’s communications, the terrorist tries to execute Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan (Melissa Leo)
outside the front door in front of the media, but Banning rescues her
and takes out several more of Kang’s men in the process. With Kang’s
forces dwindling, he fakes his own death as well as Asher’s death by
sacrificing several of his men and the remaining hostages. Kang, Asher,
and the few remaining terrorists stay in the bunker, unknown to the
outside world. Kang eventually cracks Asher’s code knowing that hacking
all three codes would have taken more time than Kang had, but focusing
on one gave him the time he needed. With that, Kang activates Cerberus
as Banning realizes that his apparent suicide was staged.
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