10 Movies That Will Definitely Win Razzie Awards In 2017

Action movies about indestructible loners who single-handedly save the world by killing dozens of faceless henchmen really belong in the 1980s with a monosyllabic athlete in the lead. They should never be allowed to take themselves seriously.

If this sequel is the 2016 equivalent of Commando (or even Invasion USA) then Hollywood has abandoned making fun movies and decided to punish the audiences that made 300 a hit. Like its predecessor, London Has Fallen is all about guns, macho posturing and shopworn clichés, but it’s too sophisticated (it says here) to use them in an entertaining way and resorts to po-faced seriousness throughout.

In order to succeed, or at least be memorable, this kind of material requires a muscleman who takes on opponents with his fists, throws them off cliffs and says, “I let him go.” Instead, we get some humdrum chase sequences, some digital explosions and a bit where the President has to kill a man to save Gerald Butler’s life. Yawn.

They’re currently considering doing a third movie, tentatively titled Angel Has Fallen, so he really shouldn’t have bothered. In light of recent events, who even wants to see a movie where the President escapes being assassinated?