London Has Fallen(2016)

R
Rated R for strong violence and language throughout
1h 39m
- Action
- Thriller

Release Date: Mar 4, 2016 | Wide

28%
51%
A-
5.9

In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning is caught up in a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

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Releases

Original Release | Mar 4, 2016

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Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$21,635,601
Total US & Canada:
$62,524,260
Total International
$143,230,187
Total Worldwide:
$205,754,447

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Director & Top Cast

Babak Najafi
Director

Gerard Butler
Mike Banning

Aaron Eckhart
Benjamin Asher

Morgan Freeman
VP Allan Trumbull

Angela Bassett
Lynne Jacobs

Alon Aboutboul
Aamir Barkawi

Waleed Zuaiter

Kamran Barkawi

Adel Bencherif

Raza Mansoor

Mehdi Dehbi

Sultan Mansoor

Shivaani Ghai

Amal Mansoor

Martin Petrushev

UAV Reaper Pilot

Owen Davis

UAV Reaper Pilot

Michael Wildman

Agent Voight

Radha Mitchell

Leah Banning

Lucy Newman-Williams

Aide

Julian Kostov

Aide

Stacy Shane

Stern Faced Advisor

Penny Downie

Home Secretary Rose Kenter

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 2.39 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States,United Kingdom,Bulgaria

Language: English,Italian,French,Japanese

Summaries

Plot Summary

Western intelligence services identify Pakistani arms dealer and terrorist leader Aamir Barkawi (Alon Moni Aboutboul) as the mastermind behind several terrorist attacks around the world, as well as locating his compound, and the United States launches a drone strike against it, supposedly killing Barkawi and his family. Two years later, Mike Banning (Gerard Butler), Secret Service agent for President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart), is expecting his first child with his wife Leah (Radha Mitchell). Meanwhile, having survived the earlier airstrike, Barkawi meets his son Kamran (Waleed Zuaiter) in Yemen, and the pair plan revenge.Asher and Banning learn that British Prime Minister James Wilson has died. Along with Secret Service Director Lynne Jacobs (Angela Bassett), they travel to London to join other prominent world leaders for Wilson's funeral, arriving at Stansted Airport via Air Force One.As the dignitaries are arriving, several mercenaries under Barkawi's command initiate an attack, starting with a bomb that destroys the Canadian Prime Minister's limo as it passes through Trafalgar Square, killing him and his wife. Other leaders suffer a similar fate - the Japanese Prime Minister drowns when suicide bombers cause Chelsea Bridge to collapse, the French President perishes in a bomb blast on the River Thames that heavily damages Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster, the Italian Prime Minister and his wife are killed when one of Westminster Abbey's bell towers is demolished while they are touring it, and the German Chancellor is shot dead by terrorists posing as Queen's Guardsmen at Buckingham Palace.Meanwhile, Asher and the Secret Service men with him engage in a firefight outside St Paul's Cathedral, and a subsequent car chase, with terrorists disguised as Metropolitan Police and other emergency response personnel. Both sides suffer heavy losses before Banning, Asher, and Jacobs escape.At their base of operations, the terrorists hack into the city's power grid, shutting it down. Banning, Asher, and Jacobs head to the Somerset House for extraction via Marine One. However, terrorists on building rooftops use Stinger missiles to take out the escorting helicopters before shooting down Marine One. The aircraft crash-lands, resulting in Jacobs being fatally wounded; she dies after making Banning promise to kill those responsible for the carnage. Banning and Asher flee into the deactivated London Underground. Asher notes that the terrorists want him captured alive so that he may be executed publicly and orders Banning to kill him if necessary to stop that from happening. Banning reluctantly agrees. As they move across the city, Banning contacts Vice President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) and sends the White House a message to let them know that he and Asher are heading for an MI6 safe-house in the city.The staff at the White House receive a threatening call from Barkawi revealing his role in the plot and his desire for vengeance. They are also informed that Wilson's autopsy report detected poison in his body, revealing that he was intentionally murdered to lure the world leaders to London. With the city in lock-down, Banning and Asher reach the safe-house of MI6 agent Jacqueline "Jax" Marshall (Charlotte Riley). Jax uses her computer to determine Barkawi's involvement and plays back a message from Trumbull confirming that they received Banning's message and are sending help. On the security cameras, the three see that a Delta Force Team is supposedly there to rescue Banning and Asher.However, Banning notices the operators aren't sweating after supposedly trekking across the city in heavy gear and deduces that they are terrorist impostors. Knowing that the terrorists must have a mole within the British government, Jax heads to Scotland Yard to coordinate with local authorities while Banning stays behind to eliminate the terrorists, aided by Asher. The pair then take an MI6 vehicle and head for the U.S. Embassy but are overturned by a garbage truck driven by the terrorists. Banning regains consciousness just in time to see Asher being abducted.Asher is taken to a construction site in the city that serves as the terrorists' secret headquarters. There, Kamran prepares to execute Asher publicly, broadcasting the video feed live around the world. Meanwhile, Banning is found by a unit of SAS and Delta Force commandos, and the group assaults the terrorist stronghold in an attempt to rescue Asher. As millions around the world watch, Kamran brutally beats Asher before preparing to behead him with a machete. At the last moment, Banning bursts in and shoots the terrorists before engaging in a fistfight with Kamran, who manages to flee. Surrounded by more terrorists during their own escape attempt, Banning orders the SAS commander to blow up the building, jumping down a shaft to safety with Asher as the fireball kills Kamran and the remaining hostiles. Jax discovers that MI5 Intelligence Chief John Lancaster (Patrick Kennedy) is the traitor who helped Barkawi and kills him in self-defense after he refuses to be taken into custody. Sometime later, Barkawi's compound is located in Yemen, where another drone strike kills him.Two weeks after the attack on London, Banning is home spending time with Leah and their newborn child, named Lynne after his deceased boss. He sits in front of his laptop and contemplates sending his letter of resignation to Asher. On TV, Trumbull speaks regarding the recent events, leaving an inspiring message that the United States will prevail. This convinces Banning to delete the letter.

Storyline

After the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances, all leaders of the Western world must attend his funeral. But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. The President of the United States, his formidable secret service head and a British MI-6 agent who trusts no one are the only people that have any hope of stopping it. — Anonymous The President goes to London along with several World leaders to attend the funeral of the Prime Minister who died suddenly. But after arriving all of the leaders are attacked and killed. The President because of his security man, Mike Banning gets away. But the ones behind the attack still pursue them. They try to get away in the President's helicopter but they manage to shoot it down. The President and Banning are now on foot and are trying to find a safe haven. In Washington, the Vice President gets a call from a man who claims responsibility; he's a man they tried to eliminate with a drone but killed his family instead. Evidently he wants revenge. — rcs0411@yahoo.com The British Prime Minister is submitted to a surgery and passes away of heart attack during the recovery. The leaders of the great nations must attend his funeral without a preparation of a security scheme by their secret services. The American President Benjamin Asher travels under the protection of Agent Mike Banning, who is responsible for his security. On the arrival at the St Paul's Cathedral, the leaders and the public in general have a massive attack from terrorists disguised as guards and police officers. Mike and the president succeed to flee, but soon they realize that there is no one is trustworthy. The terrorist leader promises to execute the president live for the whole world. Meanwhile the New Scotland Yard leadership comes up to the same conclusion and they activate the alarm system in the city to remove the real police officers from the streets to know who the terrorists are. Further, there is a high-level traitor in the Secret Service. Who might be the traitor? What will happen to the president and Mike? — Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil