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SEQUEL TO LONDON HAS FALLEN SERIES

Narratively, the film is all over the place with improbable sequences and a loose understanding of logic. Suffice to say, London Has Fallen is tone-deaf to its UK audience.īut as I say, this is far from perfect by any yardstick.

We respect our police force these days, but the film instead depicts them as incompetent, understaffed, underfunded and easily infiltrated by countless terrorists armed to the teeth. We've become used to seeing police scramble across London in an effort to protect its citizens. Until 2008, it landed at Heathrow but the considerable disruption it caused necessitated a change.Įven if the film were perfect (and trust me, it's far from perfect), it is such an orgy of violence and bloodshed that it seems particularly insensitive to set it in a city that has already witnessed a number of terrorist incidents in the last decade alone. However, Stansted is where Air Force One would land.

A caption states that Stansted is twenty miles north of London but in real life, it's actually forty-two miles northeast of the capital.

Freeman has openly admitted that the only reason he did this film was for the money, the same reason he agreed to do the first film.

You can even see several tyre marks on the runway left by the programme. The plane used as Air Force One is also the same plane grounded at Dunsfold and is often seen in the background of several sections of the programme.

SEQUEL TO LONDON HAS FALLEN SERIES

The scene set at Stansted Airport was actually shot at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, which has been the site of the Top Gear TV series since 2002.