Taking a leaf out Age of Ultron’s book on how to make trailers eerie, the debut promo for unwanted sequel London Has Fallen comes packaged with a spooky, slow, instrumental version of London Bridge is Falling Down. And you know what? It works, but only because they’re laying it over a seriously gritting minute of Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman furiously scowling at things.
In an effort to boost home release sales the trailer reminds us of the events of 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen; a film so bang-average that it managed to take the tried-and-tested Die Hard running order and turn it into a steaming pile of brown. From then on we get nothing but silence, all we here is that damn music and a montage of running, screaming and shooting at things. Hell, even a busby-donning guard is going at it, bayonet and all.
Butler takes on the role of Mike Banning once again. On duty in the UK protecting the president (Eckhart) while they attend the Prime Minister’s funeral (because what’s an American action movie without some British deaths in it?), Banning uncovers a plot to assassinate all of the attending world leaders. Confirming once and for all that shit just follows him everywhere and that if senior politicians want protecting they should kill him and hire someone else.
I’m not holding out much hope for this; its predecessor was totally lame. But hey, let’s give it a fair crack of whip, eh?
London Has Fallen is out early next year.
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