London Has Fallen

London Has Fallen is a 2016 American action
thriller film directed by Babak Najafi and
written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin
Benedikt, Chad St. John, and Christian
Gudegast . It is a sequel to Antoine Fuqua's
2013 film Olympus Has Fallen, and stars
Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart , and Morgan
Freeman, with Alon Moni Aboutboul, Angela
Bassett , Robert Forster , Melissa Leo, Radha
Mitchell and Charlotte Riley in supporting
roles.
Filming began on October 24, 2014, in London ;
a Christmas break started in November with
filming resuming in February 2015. The film
was released on March 4, 2016 by Focus
Features under their recently revived
Gramercy Pictures label.

                      PLOT
A Pakistani arms dealer and terrorist leader
named Aamir Barkawi ( Alon Moni Aboutboul)
is discovered to be the mastermind behind
several terrorist attacks in Europe and around
the world. Western intelligence services locate
his compound and the United States launches
a drone strike against it, supposedly killing
Barkawi along with his family. Two years later,
Mike Banning ( Gerard Butler), top Secret
Service agent for President Benjamin Asher
( Aaron Eckhart ), is expecting his first child
with his wife Leah ( Radha Mitchell) and hopes
to take some time off to spend time with his
family, contemplating resigning from the
Secret Service. In Yemen, Barkawi is still
alive, and he meets with his son Kamran
( Waleed Zuaiter). They begin to set plans in
motion for revenge.
Asher and Mike are informed that the British
Prime Minister James Wilson has died. Along
with Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs
( Angela Bassett ), they travel to London to join
many other prominent world leaders for
Wilson's state funeral. As they are all arriving,
several mercenaries under Barkawi's
command initiate an attack, starting with a
bomb that destroys the Canadian Prime
Minister's limo as it passes through Trafalgar
Square , killing him and his wife. Other leaders
soon suffer a similar fate; the Japanese
Prime Minister drowns when suicide bombers
cause Chelsea Bridge to collapse, the French
President perishes when a bomb destroys his
yacht on the River Thames and heavily
damages Big Ben and the Palace of
Westminster, the Italian Prime Minister and
his wife die when one of Westminster Abbey's
bell towers is blown up and the German
Chancellor is murdered by disguised royal
guardsmen at Buckingham Palace. The
terrorists also hack into the city's power
network, effectively shutting it down. The
president's staff back at the White House
watch events in horror. London is left in chaos
and hundreds of civilians are killed, but Mike
manages to get Asher and Jacobs to safety
amidst the carnage on the streets.
The trio head to Marine One for extraction.
However, men positioned on building rooftops
launch stinger missiles at the chopper, taking
out the decoy helicopters before shooting
down Marine One. The aircraft crash-lands in
a park, resulting in Jacobs being fatally
injured. Before dying, she tells Mike to "make
those fuckers pay". Mike and Asher go on the
run, fleeing into the deactivated London
Underground to get off the streets. As they
move through the underground tunnels, Asher
notes that the terrorists want to capture him
alive so that he may be executed publicly, and
orders Mike to kill him if necessary to stop
that happening. Mike reluctantly agrees. Mike
also manages to contact Vice President Allan
Trumbull ( Morgan Freeman) and sends the
White House a message to let them know that
he and Asher are heading for an MI6
safehouse in the city.
The staff at the White House receive a
threatening call from Barkawi revealing his
role in the plot and his desire for vengeance.
They are also informed that Wilson's autopsy
report detected poison in his body, revealing
that he was intentionally murdered to lure the
world leaders to London so that they could be
killed. With the city on lockdown, Mike and
Asher reach the safe-house of MI6 agent
Jacqueline "Jax" Marshall ( Charlotte Riley),
whom Mike knows well. Jax uses her
computer to determine Barkawi's involvement.
She plays back a message from Trumbull
confirming that they received Mike's message
and are sending help. On the security
cameras, the three see what is supposedly
the Delta team there to rescue Mike and
Asher, until Mike deduces they are yet more
terrorist impostors. Knowing that the terrorists
must have a mole within the British
government, Jax heads to Scotland Yard to
coordinate with local authorities while Mike
stays behind to eliminate the terrorists, aided
by Asher. The pair then take an MI6 vehicle
and make a run for the safety of the U.S.
Embassy, but are overturned by a van driven
by the terrorists. Banning regains
consciousness just in time to see Asher being
abducted.
President Asher is taken to a construction site
in the city that serves as the terrorists' secret
headquarters. There, Kamran prepares to
execute Asher publicly, broadcasting the video
feed live around the world via the internet and
other hacked video outlets. Meanwhile, Mike
has been found by a joint unit of both Delta
teams and SAS commandos, and the group
then assaults the terrorist stronghold in an
attempt to rescue Asher. As millions around
the world watch, Kamran brutally beats Asher
before preparing to behead him with a
machete, asking the President if he has any
final words, to which Asher begins reciting the
presidential Oath of Office . At the last
moment, Mike bursts in and shoots the
gathered terrorists before engaging in a
fistfight with Kamran, although the latter
ultimately manages to escape. Surrounded by
yet more terrorists during their escape, Mike
orders the special forces commander to blow
up the building, jumping down a shaft to
safety with Asher as the fireball engulfs
Kamran and the remaining hostiles, killing
them. Jax discovers that MI5 Intelligence
Chief John Lancaster ( Patrick Kennedy) is the
traitor who helped Barkawi and kills him in
self-defense. Some time later, Barkawi's
compound is located in Yemen, where another
drone strike is launched against him. Trumbull
contacts him by phone and speaks to him
moments before he dies in the explosion.
Two weeks after the attack on London, Mike
returns home and is spending time with Leah
and their newborn child, named Lynne after
his deceased boss. He sits in front of his
laptop and continues to contemplate sending
his letter of resignation to Asher. On TV,
Trumbull speaks regarding the recent events,
leaving an inspiring message that America will
prevail. This convinces Mike to delete the
letter.

Cast

*Gerard Butler as Mike Banning, a Secret
Service agent and Special Agent in charge of
the Presidential Protection Division.
* Aaron Eckhart as Benjamin Asher, the
President of the United States .
* Morgan Freeman as Allan Trumbull, the
Vice President of the United States .
*Alon Moni Aboutboul as Aamir Barkawi, a terrorist mastermind who is #6 on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.
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