The Olympus has fallen is my favorite movie. It's a action film directed by Antoine Fuqua. It is about a North Korean led an assault on the White House and focuses on the USSS (United States Secret Service) agent who tried to stop them.
Mike Banning, the lead Secret Service agent was assigned to head the Presidential Detail. During a Christmas evening, a tree fall of the President's convoy, making the vehicle out of control on black ice on a bridge. The vehicle and the limousine where the President was, fall into the icy below. Banning saved the President but Margaret died in the crash.
After eighteen months, Banning has been demoted to Treasury Department because every time the President see him, he remembers the night when his wife died. During a meeting between the President and the South Korea Prime Minister, the Korean-led guerilla force, aided by treasonous members of Prime Minister Lee’s own detail, including Dave Forbes, a Secret Service agent who turned to be traitor. They mount an assault that results in the capture of the White House. The President and the other officials are held hostages in the bunker of the White House where the Prime Minister is killed. But before he is killed, an agent alerted the Director of the Secret Service that "the Olympus has fallen."
The mastermind of this attack is Kang Yeonsak. He is from North Korea who appears to be motivated by hope for a reunification of Korea. He is forcing the U.S. military to withdraw from Korean Peninsula to allow the civil war to end. He also want to destroy all of the American's nuclear weapons and turn the U.S. into a wasteland as a revenge for the death of his parents that is being killed by the U.S. military. But to do that, he needs the 'Cerberus code'. It's a code that activates all the nuclear weapons in the U.S. The codes are held by three government officials who are all hostages in the bunker. The President ordered the two officials to reveal their codes to save their lives.
Banning joins the side of the White House’s defenders. He is still inside the White House. He disables the internal surveillance and gain access to the President’s satellite phone, which he uses to maintain contact with the Acting President. His first mission is to save Connor, son of the President, who Kang plans to use to force the President to reveal his code. Banning finds Connor hiding behind the walls and sneaks him out of the White House.
The terrorist tries to execute the Secretary of Defense outside the front door in the front of the media but Banning rescues her and killed several Terrorist. With Kang’s force dwindling, he fakes his death and the death of the President but they are still in the bunker. Kang cracks the President’s code and activate the Cerberus as Banning realized that his suicide was faked. As Kang attempts to escape with the president, Banning kills all remaining terrorist including Kang. He disables the code with the help of the Acting President with only seconds to spare. Banning and the President escaped the White House. After that event, Banning once again works as the Presidential Detail.
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