Yes, I am saying it: Angel Has Fallen is the sort of movie that is, to all appearances, designed to make stupid people feel smart, by “letting” you figure out whodunnit while it acts like there’s any mystery at all to it. I won’t spoil, but if you cannot immediately pick out the Bad Guys “hidden” among everyone else, you are even stupider than this movie hopes you are. This time around, Butler’s ( How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Hunter Killer) Secret Service agent, Mike Banning, is framed for an assassination attempt on, apparently, Movie President For Life Morgan Freeman ( Alpha, Going in Style), and has to go on the run in order to prove his innocence and find the real miscreants, who are entirely obvious from their first seconds onscreen. His agent, on the other hand, has a lot to answer for.) Perhaps even worse, Angel has Jada Pinkett Smith(!) ( Magic Mike XXL, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted) as the FBI agent after fugitive Butler, and while she has the potential to be a Tommy Lee Jones–level no-fucks-given badass antagonist here, the movie has no interest in that. Though I have to concede that it’s not really the actor’s fault he may just be chasing a juicy paycheck, and fair enough.
(This movie may have finally killed what small affection I once had for Butler. Instead it’s mostly just a sad retread of The Fugitive - also utterly uncalled for - that is dumb, pointless, confused, and laughably unable to convince us that Gerard Butler is an acceptable stand-in for Harrison Ford for us to empathize with, worry about, and/or thirst after. Good news, everyone! Angel Has Fallen - the uncalled-for threequel to the Nuremberg rallies that were Olympus Has Fallen and London Has Fallen - isn’t as overtly, obnoxiously rah-rah pro-America propaganda as its predecessors.
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