🤣🤣...I would never watch some of these films again in a million years. And yet I could watch Mark's reviews of them on a loop...they are so much more entertaining. His review of Avatar 2 is destined to become a classic!
@@dibdab101 Oooohhh the Na've, oooohhhh Pandora, the sky people are coming, oooohhhh 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d. Ava-sleep the way of torture! Best review of 2022 and yes that one will definitely become a classic.
Its quite amusing that the villains are all supposed to be a terrorist family, despite the fact that the dad looks like the Shah, one son looks like he's from the gulf, and another looks son must hails from the Levant appearance wise. So they are all non-specially brown.
To be fair Mark's review made it sound hilarious. Although I think his review will be more entertaining than the actual film. Still, one for a boozy night in front of the TV where me and my pals can poke drunken fun at it...just like how I saw the first one.
I've heard this 'correction' before and I'm sure I'll hear it again; to me it's the epitome of pedantry. If you check the OED, it's been used in the more general sense of "to reduce drastically or severely; to destroy, ruin, devastate" for centuries.
It’s not even pedantry, it’s just wrong. Words change their meanings over time, this is just the fallacy of etymology. “Decimated” has meant “destroyed” for a long time now
@@patrickrowan6001 You conflate Annihilated with Decimated. It actually means two vastly different things, when talking about scope and scale. One is recoverable, the other is not. Details matter.
Sluggish Throne $160m made on a $70m budget (not including promotional costs) seems pretty poor to me. Especially since a movie that is considered a success needs to make at least two and half times its production budget.
I like how the White House is "Olympus" but London is just "London". That way everybody can know they didn't intend to tell a larger story but would really like to get paid for making roughly the same film again.
"we were thinking benjamin if it's a boy." "really?" "hell no, if it's a girl maybe" great to see jokes catering for that most sophisticated of demographics who think there's something wrong with being a woman
Mark Kermode is 100% right yet again. For an action movie this is incredibly boring and as a film overall, it is pure rubbish. Butler is terrible in a normal role, but in a role where he's doing an american accent with horrible dialogue he really shines in how rubbish he can be. This film was so dumb and horrible and painfully boring to watch with terrible special effects. I agree with Kermode, White House Down was at least fun and enjoyable, where as this film has no redeeming qualities, not a single one. They better not make a third one.
In addition to all the things you just said, it's also terribly xenophobic and propagandist. The cinematic version of Donald Trump basically. I absolutely hated it.
Normally i agree with Mark but not on this one. White House Down way better than Olympus Has Fallen, no way sir. White House Down is tonally all over the place and has nothing like the opening assault on the White House which is spectacular in Olympus. I am not saying either film is a masterpiece but Olympus was far better for me and i think that led to a sequel. Lots of folk actually took to its charm of being outrageous and over the top with the dialogue and action.
+multipleman78 Olympus felt like a proper throwback to the 15 and 18 rated action films of the 80's. Not the standard bloodless deaths and solitary f-word of modern 12A films
Agreed. Few people will consider Olympus has Fallen a classic, but it's a decent throwback action movie for what it is, with some good direction to give it some genuine tension. White House Down legitimately feels like a Mel Brooks Naked Gun movie in parts. London Has Fallen on the other hand felt like a direct-to-video film from the 80s, like terribly shot with no tension at all. Awful film.
I love Mark both handsome and loves films .great ! im surprised at this review I've not seen the film but I've seen a trailer and to me ,it looked like a good movie .surprising review but Mr kermode is a pretty much right on about his reviews ,he also needs to go watch a movie with me ... lol
It's amazingly dumb, even for an action blockbuster. The dialogue is awful, cringe inducing at times....but funny due to the ridiculousness at others. When he said "Fuckheadistan", that got a laugh, because it was said completely straight, no irony at all. Some of the action was ok. The whole plot with the terrorists and just how much of the police force and intelligence infrastructure they managed to hijack in just under two years was completely absurd. Gerard Butler's American accent is awful, and his character was indestructible until about 10 minutes from the end, when he got hit in the arm by a stray bullet. There's no stakes if your lead never looks to be in danger and is always 100% right and capable of handling anything. The Transformers movies have better action, and are less stupid. Well, except Revenge of the Fallen with it's robot heaven nonsense.
I like to watch these reviews because I always know that if Mark and Simon hate a movie , its not subtitled all the way through, it will be in colour not pretentious and high brow and will probably turn out to be a blockbuster and I will love it so thanks for the review
Wow. Really? "Bourbon and poor choices." I am late to the party but that is quite possibly the worst movie line I have ever heard. I'd expect to hear that in a pastiche of Die Hard or something. Truly awful.
It's such a shame. I was really looking forward to this film. Hoping it would be a little bit more patriotic towards Britain rather than just making us look useless. Such a shame....
Despite strong acting, the film fails to grip audiences due to its story, lack of action, direction & lack of A decent script. (33%) (1.5/5 stars) (negative)
Olympus has fallen was not a great film, but it had decent acting , directing and action scenes....White House down was completely unwatchable....I would rate it as one of the worst action films ever...... London has Fallen ..if it came out 10 years ago would have been a block buster !!...If you really want to see a far fetched ridiculous action film....just watch any of those Fast and Furious movies ...
I'm just left wondering if brown people peed in Gerard Butler's cereal. Like every film of his, is him doing his one man war against them. It's just weird at this point and it just raises questions.
This movie is made of bourbon and poor choices
Tyler Amato and cocaine
"Croydon's alright then?"
+Captain Calculus Yes, I'm sure that's a relief to er, someone. Presumably it had no strategic value - who'd have guessed?
+Captain Calculus Phew! Our carefully-crafted insignificance is finally paying off.
It's one of those films where everyone keeps saying "Mr President" every five seconds.
Perfect.
I enjoyed Mark enjoying panning this film.
+Bod Notbod I have subsequently enjoyed you enjoying Mark enjoying panning the film.
I keep forgetting that Gerard Butler is supposed to be American in these films
+Mark Devlin Gerard Butler is not an American? Yeah, right. And Kiefer Sutherland is canadian...
Christ, at least he wasn't supposed to be Irish.
Donald Trump thought it was a documentary.
+number94 Drumpf
+number94 london is a no go zone
jolena auvuya Gerard Butler.
THEY'RE NOT EFFITY-JEFFITY POLICES!
That unexpected moment at 5:51, I laughed so hard lol
how do you laugh 'hard'? Do you mean hard as in difficult or hard as in tough? Or maybe both, you had a difficult and tough laugh
5:51 best impression of Shut-Up Butt-Wad I've ever heard
6 years later and the moment at 5:51 still has me in stitches 😉🤣
🤣🤣...I would never watch some of these films again in a million years. And yet I could watch Mark's reviews of them on a loop...they are so much more entertaining. His review of Avatar 2 is destined to become a classic!
@@dibdab101 Oooohhh the Na've, oooohhhh Pandora, the sky people are coming, oooohhhh 3d 3d 3d 3d 3d. Ava-sleep the way of torture! Best review of 2022 and yes that one will definitely become a classic.
@@dibdab101 Thank you for reminding me of that one. Now I'll have to watch it for the 500th time
I'm using 'efferty jefferty' in casual conversation since this.
The line would have been better if he said; "Bourbon and pork chops"
That's what I thought he was going to say at first
I thought he said Bourbon and Porch Chairs
Do they play Panic by The Smiths at any point?
+Obscure Entertainment I would also expect London Calling by The Clash as they arrive too.
+MainlineDnB
Sad but so true. Playing The Clash when a film scene is in London is incredibly tiresome now.
Its quite amusing that the villains are all supposed to be a terrorist family, despite the fact that the dad looks like the Shah, one son looks like he's from the gulf, and another looks son must hails from the Levant appearance wise. So they are all non-specially brown.
+Toad Lash OH and Morgan Freeman is in it to make speeches about hope and hope and yet more hope.
This review is the best thing Mark has ever done.
To be fair Mark's review made it sound hilarious. Although I think his review will be more entertaining than the actual film. Still, one for a boozy night in front of the TV where me and my pals can poke drunken fun at it...just like how I saw the first one.
Thank you Mark for actually pointing out that decimated actually means 1/10 has been destroyed.
I've heard this 'correction' before and I'm sure I'll hear it again; to me it's the epitome of pedantry. If you check the OED, it's been used in the more general sense of "to reduce drastically or severely; to destroy, ruin, devastate" for centuries.
Could it mean... that it has not been reduced BY 10%, but that it has been reduced TO 10%...? Either way, crap movie.
It’s not even pedantry, it’s just wrong. Words change their meanings over time, this is just the fallacy of etymology.
“Decimated” has meant “destroyed” for a long time now
@@patrickrowan6001 You conflate Annihilated with Decimated. It actually means two vastly different things, when talking about scope and scale. One is recoverable, the other is not.
Details matter.
The film may be rubbish but it was worth making it just for this review
"The silence woke me up." 😂
In 2019 looking forward to Mark Kermode's review of Angel Has Fallen.
Don't even know why they have made a sequel, not like the first was all that successful at the box office.
+rockinchimp It did well enough.
Sluggish Throne $160m made on a $70m budget (not including promotional costs) seems pretty poor to me. Especially since a movie that is considered a success needs to make at least two and half times its production budget.
i love this review
I miss John McClane.
#Effityjeffitythapolice
I like how the White House is "Olympus" but London is just "London". That way everybody can know they didn't intend to tell a larger story but would really like to get paid for making roughly the same film again.
C'mon! UK isn't a big giant 'Murica.
"Olympus" in the first film is the codename for the White House. Why would there be a codename for London?
@@dunebasher1971 exactly!
@@dunebasher1971should've been called number 10 has fallen
crashy smashy fy jeffy ...love his cute ways ..
A Doctor Who special effects budget?! Shots fired....
PlaidShirtGamer Wibbly Wobbly Efferty Jefferty
"we were thinking benjamin if it's a boy."
"really?"
"hell no, if it's a girl maybe"
great to see jokes catering for that most sophisticated of demographics who think there's something wrong with being a woman
one of my favourite reviews in a while. Gold
Could you rename Geostorm as Planet Earth Has Fallen?
@Danielle Stormborn Efferty-Jefferty is a polite and funny way of referring to all the swearing, especially the f word in the film :-)
Can't wait til the crossover sequel: Earth Has Fallen
It's the 'Has Fallen' series mixed with Independence Day series.
Brilliant rant!
Mark Kermode is 100% right yet again. For an action movie this is incredibly boring and as a film overall, it is pure rubbish. Butler is terrible in a normal role, but in a role where he's doing an american accent with horrible dialogue he really shines in how rubbish he can be.
This film was so dumb and horrible and painfully boring to watch with terrible special effects. I agree with Kermode, White House Down was at least fun and enjoyable, where as this film has no redeeming qualities, not a single one. They better not make a third one.
In addition to all the things you just said, it's also terribly xenophobic and propagandist. The cinematic version of Donald Trump basically. I absolutely hated it.
When the action sends you to sleep and the thundering silence wakes you up it's time to find the exit!
I am going to use 'efferty-jefferty' all the time now
I love it when Mark says (at 4:45) "...they're not effity-jeffity Polices!!" 😆😆
It was enjoyable, hope to see another
Welcome back classic Mark :)
I think this wasn't really Mark, but Eddie Izzard in a Mark mask. Listen to the delivery, it's very Izzard-esque.
The sort of film you would expect to see on Syfy
Asylum films have higher production values than this.
Coming through to save the Efferty Jefferty day yeah!!
I watched it this evening on Netflix. Its the worst film I've seen I think...
efferty jeffertying top review
Afghh that clip :S
So...you're saying it's rubbish?
It's a pity that the correspondence from listeners were not included because they added to the conversation of how terrible this film is.
Normally i agree with Mark but not on this one. White House Down way better than Olympus Has Fallen, no way sir. White House Down is tonally all over the place and has nothing like the opening assault on the White House which is spectacular in Olympus. I am not saying either film is a masterpiece but Olympus was far better for me and i think that led to a sequel. Lots of folk actually took to its charm of being outrageous and over the top with the dialogue and action.
+multipleman78 Olympus felt like a proper throwback to the 15 and 18 rated action films of the 80's. Not the standard bloodless deaths and solitary f-word of modern 12A films
Agreed. Few people will consider Olympus has Fallen a classic, but it's a decent throwback action movie for what it is, with some good direction to give it some genuine tension. White House Down legitimately feels like a Mel Brooks Naked Gun movie in parts.
London Has Fallen on the other hand felt like a direct-to-video film from the 80s, like terribly shot with no tension at all. Awful film.
This is the best moment of my day
I love Mark both handsome and loves films .great ! im surprised at this review I've not seen the film but I've seen a trailer and to me ,it looked like a good movie .surprising review but Mr kermode is a pretty much right on about his reviews ,he also needs to go watch a movie with me ... lol
this is the best review I've seen mark do he is both funny and very cute ! I have to keep watching this video lol
It's amazingly dumb, even for an action blockbuster. The dialogue is awful, cringe inducing at times....but funny due to the ridiculousness at others. When he said "Fuckheadistan", that got a laugh, because it was said completely straight, no irony at all.
Some of the action was ok. The whole plot with the terrorists and just how much of the police force and intelligence infrastructure they managed to hijack in just under two years was completely absurd.
Gerard Butler's American accent is awful, and his character was indestructible until about 10 minutes from the end, when he got hit in the arm by a stray bullet. There's no stakes if your lead never looks to be in danger and is always 100% right and capable of handling anything.
The Transformers movies have better action, and are less stupid. Well, except Revenge of the Fallen with it's robot heaven nonsense.
Has to be watched while wearing a Hi Vis jacket.
Now I think this is maybe on par with Michael Bay bashing!!!
the mark we love
I like to watch these reviews because I always know that if Mark and Simon hate a movie , its not subtitled all the way through, it will be in colour not pretentious and high brow and will probably turn out to be a blockbuster and I will love it so thanks for the review
With the perspective of 5 years, how’d that work out? Did you enjoy this turd of a film?
In the first 10 seconds he says, "Olympus has fallen with.... Shut up butwad"
What's that about?
+Simon Tuffs "Shutup Butwad" is his fond name for Gerard Butler
America "effity - jeferty" yeah. Thats basically all that I needed to hear to understand this film.
Great rant
What's efferty-jefferty?
Swearing, cursing, cussing.
Mark just made this word up, right? Or do people (other than Mark Kermode) use this in real life?
Highgate cemetery!! yes mark, Yes
Olympus was one step up from the appauling Red Dawn flick.
A four "rubbish" close. Not a good sign.
It's gung ho, it's violent and profane, it's unashamedly racist, it's pure Hollywood - and I loved every effing second of it!
This is the cinematic equivalent of a double cheese burger with bacon from Five Guys Burgers.
Wow. Really? "Bourbon and poor choices." I am late to the party but that is quite possibly the worst movie line I have ever heard. I'd expect to hear that in a pastiche of Die Hard or something. Truly awful.
I enjoyed Beowulf protecting Two-Face!
Great review! Lol!
So was it rubbish then?
I thought White House Down was stupid-stupid. No, not in a good way.
+Tom Preece Did you listen to this podcast? Mark mentions White House Down as a superior film to Olympus
+Tom Preece Yeah, kind of. But badass at the same time :D
***** I think its okay for it to be cringey - still fun :D
I thought it was a decent Friday night action pic
June 2017........Hollywood has fallen..!
I loved London Has Fallen
29 out of 100 in Metacritic lol These movies are terrible.
@animation god Tokyo has fallen LMAO why did they even make a 2nd one! The first one was sure no Die Hard to start with!
It's such a shame. I was really looking forward to this film. Hoping it would be a little bit more patriotic towards Britain rather than just making us look useless. Such a shame....
I love this man
What is the British capital? Is there such a thing?
+Zero Ninety. Scunthorpe!? Won't comment as I've never been.
soon enough whole movie made on an app done on the cheap full price tickets paid by the sheep and make lots of money
"its not fun rubbish" :)
Despite strong acting, the film fails to grip audiences due to its story, lack of action, direction & lack of A decent script. (33%) (1.5/5 stars) (negative)
They're not efferty-gefferty polices!!
ha ha this is fffetity jeffity brilliant! kermode on form here
It was rubbish. Apart from anything else, the script had an improbability factor of 0.97.
Instead of Muslim paramilitaries they should have used Slavs as they are a large grouolp that blend in better to Europe and hate the west.
Ulympus has Fallen became the second worst movie after the London was under siege and left ghost city in less than 12 hours in this another movie.
Olympus has fallen was not a great film, but it had decent acting , directing and action scenes....White House down was completely unwatchable....I would rate it as one of the worst action films ever...... London has Fallen ..if it came out 10 years ago would have been a block buster !!...If you really want to see a far fetched ridiculous action film....just watch any of those Fast and Furious movies ...
Why do I keep getting recommended kermode's reviews of crappy movies?
I'm just left wondering if brown people peed in Gerard Butler's cereal. Like every film of his, is him doing his one man war against them. It's just weird at this point and it just raises questions.
No need to diss Doctor Who visual effects, Mark. It's 2016, not 1976
I clicked the video looking for a laugh, thinking he would hate it....I wasn't disappointed.
"We meet Shut up Buttwad..."
2 face vs leonitus in a race... Latter wins
Oh my God, I cant't wait to see this it sounds hilariously bad.
it was silly fun l liked it
bon bons and porch horses
lmao great review
What's the point of keeping mayo on the show? You can tell he hates being on this show
So I take it it was decent?
all this review needs now is some special effects! 😀
Well I enjoyed the movie..
I kind of did too. It is rubbish but I didn't dislike it. Much better than Olympus.
That cheesey clip makes me actually want to see it
+Art vandaley And you want to be my latex salesman.