Butler: 'Olympus Has Fallen' is really a tale of 'redemption'

If you head out to see the Gerard Butler action movie “Olympus Has Fallen” this weekend, you're probably going for the pyrotechnics: The White House is blown to smithereens, the Washington Monument dramatically implodes, many bad guys die violently.

Gerard Butler is back to kick butt in “Olympus Has Fallen,” opening nationwide this weekend. The movie centers around his capable Secret Service Agent, Mike Banning, who falls into disgrace after a car accident involving

If you're going to make a movie where the White House is destroyed and the fate of the American government hangs in the balance, it at least ought to be fun to watch. That may sound sacrilegious—I'm pretty sure even the

There's no missing the patriotic imagery in “Olympus Has Fallen,” a high-octane action thriller about a splinter group of North Korean terrorists who invade the White House and hold the president hostage. Key scenes in the film feature sun-dappled

Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen is subtitled to all hell in an effort to convey the sense of a documentary, or at least a procedural. But Olympus is neither. It is instead the dark fantasy of a first-person-shooter, with Gerard