Angel Has Fallen

One of the action flicks I enjoyed and could watch repeatedly was the Fallen installment told by Creighton Rothenberger. I was already hooked by the first installment which was Olympus Has Fallen(2013) and London Has Fallen(2016) didn’t disappoint. Still, I have a lot of reason to believe that Angel Has Fallen(2019), the third and final film in the Fallen installment, was the best in the trilogy, or my second best after Olympus Has Fallen. I re-watched it recently for what might be the third time and had a good time while at it, even though I could practically utter the lines before they were said.

Angel Has Fallen (2019)

What happens when the hero becomes the fugitive? Agent Mike Banning(Gerard Butler) has become the Secret Service Director for the United States. While on a private fishing trip with the former Vice President now President Alan Trumbull(Morgan Freeman), they are attacked by drones that kill the President’s detail and leave no survivors apart from Agent Banning who manages to rescue the President, even though both of them end up incapacitated.

Falsified evidence is presented implicating Banning and portraying him as the perpetrator behind Trumbull’s assassination, and this leads to Banning’s arrest. On the way to the detention facility, however, events occur that lead to Banning’s freedom and set him on the run as a man wanted by the government. What he realizes however on the run, is that the evil doers are not only afoot but right there with the President who is still comatose. What Trumbull himself discovers is that Banning alone can protect him. Can the fallen angel and fugitive of the law regain his status again?

One of the things that drew me the most to this last movie in the Fallen trilogy was the decision to make Banning more humane, instead of the indestructible, unfeeling man he was portrayed in the previous two installments. It made him more endearing as a character and made him a lot more relatable to me. Not the whole macho man, superhero business. Not like he didn’t embody those roles perfectly, but this felt a lot more real.

In terms of pacing and tension, it was right up there with the rest. Even though it started a tad slow, it soon enough skyrocketed to becoming a thrill ride with nonstop action. Mike Banning delivered as always. Honestly, when it comes to soulful action, that man never disappoints. Morgan Freeman did not do too much, but Morgan Freeman in himself is enough to get a movie going and that was done to perfection. I also enjoyed the performance of Danny Huston who did a good job starring as Wade Jennings.

It also portrayed dirty politics at its finest, which unless you’re fully in the establishment, you may never fully know how dirty it could get. So, we only get a taste of that but even then, it seems enough to get the movie going. The antagonists were not the hysterical villains that a lot of movies portray. Just carrying out their evil quietly which, by the way, is what happens as the true villains are never ones to be drawn to hysterics and all the drama.

It’s not an unpredictable movie. I immediately knew who the bad guy was the moment I saw him. No rocket science there. But it was a good film regardless. So yeah, a lot of predictable moves for anyone who has watched action flicks severally, but its shine wasn’t dulled, making it more or less a befitting end to this franchise. I at least hope there won’t be another one. What do you think? Which in the Fallen franchise is your favourite?

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