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Fallen' review: "Gerard Butler excels in decent thriller"
Released on Wednesday, Apr 10 2013  Director: Antoine Fuqua;
Screenwriters: Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt;
Starring:Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Rick Yune, Morgan
Freeman, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell, Dylan McDermott, Ashley
Judd, Robert Forster, Angela Bassett; Running time: 120 mins;
Certificate: 15  "Let's play a game of F**k Off. You go
first..."  That cracking throwaway line, delivered with zeal by
Gerard Butler's brawny hero to the mandatory North Korean
baddie, exemplifies the heights occasionally obtained in this
reasonably diverting thriller. It lacks the consistency and
flair to live up to its attempted 'Die Hard in the White House'
premise, for the most part feeling like an extended, bigger
budgeted episode of 24 that runs out of ideas before the ticking
clock and end credits.  Butler is at his quick-quipping,
buttkicking best though, playing U.S. Army Ranger Mike Banni