 Metacritic assigns the film a weighted average score of 41 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale.Richard Roeper compared "Olympus Has Fallen" with the "Die Hard" series for sharing the same style and momentum, calling it as "just too much of a pale "Die Hard" ripoff."