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Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: ... the action is often not unengaging, and Butler's better at swinging for faux Bruce Willis ... Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Sadly, Mr. Butler lacks the wit and the range to convey anything other than grouchy belligerence, and the script, by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, seems intent on squandering opportunities to be clever or interesting. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: A nitwit extravaganza that makes you long for the intellectual depth of Independence Day. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: This is for those who like their political thrillers far-fetched, far-reaching and filled with pretty people. Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: The picture is basically a ground-based version of "Air Force One" with a much higher body count. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: Cut past the pic's superficial patriotism, and the message is ironically clear: Never outsource your visual effects when a domestic shop will do. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: The one and only consolation for audiences is that the end of the world would never, ever happen this way. Read more
Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic: "Olympus" has a strictly director-for-hire vibe; anyone with access to a Roland Emmerich movie or two (namely "Independence Day") and a mad-libbed action script could have churned out something similar. Read more
Tom Russo, Boston Globe: Pop jingoism isn't easy to stir once you've established a vibe that's so deflating. Read more
Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: This ludicrous actioner strives to be as loud, violent, and patriotic as possible. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: "Olympus Has Fallen" goes through plenty of familiar motions, but does them well enough that it gets away with it. There's a reason movies like this die hard. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Directed by Antoine Fuqua with his usual slam-bang, cutthroat aggression but with almost nothing in the way of surprise or genuine, organic suspense. Read more
Jordan Hoffman, Film.com: If you have an uncle who hasn't seen a movie since "Taken," he's gonna' love this one. Read more
Wesley Morris, Grantland: Olympus Has Fallen is made from action-movie mix. Just add sweat. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Generates a fair amount of tension and produces the kind of nationalistic outrage that rock-ribbed Americans will feel in their guts. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: A typical slab of Hollywood action in which the White House crumbles under attack, the American flag is tattered and tossed aside by baddies, and cliches rise like gods. Read more
Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: There's no reason to overthink this. Just leave your brain at the lobby and enjoy 2013's most entertaining thriller yet. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: Fuqua doesn't deliver on what he has set up. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's a solid, simple, more-bang-for-our-buck entertainment that doesn't ask us to think. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Fuqua knows exactly how to pump up a straightforward script from first-time scribes Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The film is a second-rate "Air Force One" mashed up with a third-rate "Die Hard," with Gerard Butler striving mightily to be charismatic as the One Man Who Can Save the Day. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Any semblance of seriousness and verisimilitude suggested by the marketing campaign is quickly forgotten once director Antoine Fuqua's enjoyably tacky Die Hard-on-the-Potomac gets under way. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: While Gerard Butler is no Bruce Willis, his Mike Banning is a better facsimile of John McClane than the guy Willis is pretending to play these days. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: 'Olympus Has Fallen is just too much of a pale 'Die Hard' ripoff. Read more
Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: While the storyline and dialogue are frequently predictable, "Olympus Has Fallen" succeeds largely due to Butler's believablity as a Secret Service agent. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Olympus Has Fallen is about as satisfying an action thriller as can be hoped for, with an irresistible premise and nothing but follow-through all the way to the finish. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Olympus Has Fallen" is everything an audience nostalgic for the Steven Seagal killfests of the '90s expects and deserves. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Given the premise's essential absurdity, it's almost embarrassingly entertaining. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It all goes down shockingly well, even if Butler lacks the sarcastic wit of a Bruce Willis or Arnold Schwarzenegger and even as the film keeps upping the eye-rolling quotient with cartoon characters. Read more
Guy Lodge, Time Out: The thrills and the effects are cheap, but this is in hard-driving, good-humoured command of its own silliness. Read more
Scott Foundas, Village Voice: Pretty ridiculously entertaining-or at least entertainingly ridiculous-for long stretches, dulled only by the realization that there are many parts of the country where this will play as less than total farce. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: The carnage is cruel and crude. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: "Olympus Has Fallen" at least possesses the frisson of timeliness amid otherwise hoary action-movie cliches. Read more