ANGEL HAS FALLEN
Gerard Butler boasts an engaging screen presence that can make even junky movies fun. Maybe it’s the fast angle
Either way, it works, especially in “Angel Has Fallen,” the latest entry in the actor’s franchise built around Mike Banning, a heroic Secret Service agent who continually bails the president out of life-threatening jams.

“Angel” is never as over the top — or as good — as that movie, but it moves along at a quick clip and Mike remains the kind of old-school hero for whom it's easy to root.
Here, he's battling an addiction to opioids — ooh, how very today of the filmmakers — brought on by too many on-the-job injuries. Mike muses with an old friend (Danny Huston) about growing older and considers becoming director of the Secret Service, which would put him behind a desk. "If I had my way, I would keep hard-charging till the day I die," Mike exclaims. Of course, before that can happen, the president (Morgan Freeman, getting a promotion from the previous films) is the target of a dazzling drone attack that wipes out all the agents on duty except for Mike. The president winds up hospitalized in a coma.
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