By Adarsh Senthilnathan – Staff Reporter

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS

“Angel Has Fallen,” directed by Ric Roman Waugh, is about Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, played by Gerard Butler, and his interactions with President Alan Trumbull, played by Morgan Freeman. 

“Angel Has Fallen” won the Labor Day weekend box office with an estimated $11.5 million. 

The movie focuses mainly on Mike Banning and how he is falsely accused of planning an assassination attempt on President Alan Trumbull and his entire Secret Service team, but it also includes people like Leah Banning, Clay Banning, and Wade Jennings. 

The movie starts off with Banning at a Secret Service training facility and when Banning comes out of the facility, Jennings takes Banning’s helmet and collects DNA evidence, such as hair and sweat. Of course, at this time, Banning has no idea that Jennings did this and will plan to betray him in the future. 

During one of the President’s fishing expeditions, Wade Jennings and his Salient team fire drones that target and kill all the members of Mike’s Secret Service team, but they do not target Mike and the President. After this, the Federal Bureau of Investigation falsely accuses Mike of an assassination attempt on the President and his own Secret Service team because of the DNA evidence that Jennings planted in the van that fired the drones.

Eventually Mike escapes custody of the FBI and custody of Salient Global because of his Secret Service training. 

One of the best parts of the movie is when Mike Banning and Clay Banning press buttons and wires on land in the forest and a bunch of bombs go off and kill the bad people from Salient Global that Wade Jennings sent to kill Mike. 

Banning is thought to be a criminal during most of the movie, and as a result his family is poorly treated. After President Alan Trumbull clears Banning’s name, he is uncuffed and allowed to help out in protecting the President from Wade Jennings and his Salient team. 

Banning successfully takes the President out of the hospital, but then his team is attacked by Salient, and it turns into a bloody gunfight. At the end of all the fighting, the President is safe and Mike Banning lives and becomes promoted to Secret Service director. 

The previous Secret Service Director David Gentry arrests the acting President Martin Kirby for helping Salient Global plan the assassination attempt on President Alan Trumbull in order to raise up to the office of the President of the United States and help give military contracts to private military companies. 

However, the movie could have included more action in the beginning part of the movie, like before the training exercise. 

The director did a really good job and the actors were very good at making the movie interesting. 

“Angel Has Fallen” can be compared to the two previous movies in the “Fallen” series, which are “Olympus Has Fallen” and “London Has Fallen”. 

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars