Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Butler manfully dispenses justice here many times over, and even if the other main actors are in it strictly for the paycheck, they've all been in a whole lot worse in their time.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
This sort of movie was made for television viewing. You could tune in or out at any moment and really not miss anything. Or just have a drink beforehand and bring your rowdiest friends to the theater.

Name : Andy Klein / Alias : TheWrap
Agent Banning is the latest in a long line of heroes whose every bullet kills someone while the bad guys constantly spray him with hundreds of bullets from machine guns, none of which seem to hit the target.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
"London Has Fallen" is remarkable only because of how much worse it is than its inane predecessor, 2013's "Olympus Has Fallen."

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
Butler doesn't even have his own catchphrase. He just poaches two of Schwarzenegger's, bellowing both "Get to the chopper!" and "I'll be back!"

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
For this even crasser sequel [Fuqua has] been replaced by director Babak Najafi, who thinks that if four people with assault weapons are good, than 40 are even better.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
London Has Fallen is one of those rare films that is good at absolutely nothing.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
It's rarely exciting or suspenseful, and some of the digital effects are also reminiscent of a 1980s action movie level.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
While taking the action to an international stage, the lumbering story isn't at all concerned with legit drama, let alone intelligently considering the ramifications of the mayhem it imagines.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
London Has Fallen is Donald Trump in film form.

Name : Christian Holub / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
By casting its villain as a suspiciously ISIS-like Middle Eastern terrorist network, London Has Fallen makes itself into a political movie-but its politics are heinous.

Name : Leah Pickett / Alias : Chicago Reader
[Butler and Eckhart's] mildly diverting performances aren't enough to dislodge the film's troubling pro-engagement message.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
Butler's dark gusto is unexplained, and his character lacks the charisma and one-liners of fellow macho world-savers Rambo, James Bond and John McClane.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Like the original, London Has Fallen features a top-notch cast and some crackling good action sequences. And, alas, like the original, this is a cliche-riddled, aggressively violent, laughably plotted exploitation flick.

Name : David Lewis / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
You've seen everything on the screen before - many, many times. For every bullet, and you will lose count, there is a cliche.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Racist, stupid and boasting cheesy effects that wouldn't pass muster on basic cable.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
It's all silly and meant to be fun, except when Najafi tries to throw in some serious bits, which wind up being sillier still.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Represents a geopolitical obliteration fantasy flushed from the mind of the angriest and dumbest and most conspiracy-minded among us.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
An impossibly enjoyable live-action cartoon that plays on our real-life anxieties about vengeful cadres of foreign radicals blowing up people - and places.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
London Has Fallen is competently made and offers what any viewer would reasonably expect. There's plenty of action, a fair amount of wide-scale destruction, and a rousing climax.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
Somewhere along the line, it may occur to you that Babak Najafi's sequel to 2013's president-in-peril pic Olympus Has Fallen is a sly attack on America masquerading as a celebration of same.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
President Benjamin Asher needs two things: better security personnel and better scriptwriters.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
The sequel swaps cunning for brutal violence and turns Banning into a one man killing machine.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
This one's strictly for Butler fans, and for R-rated action audiences hungry for a scenario in which the good, and mostly white, people pick off the brown, completely inhumanly bad people by the dozen.

Name : Tim Grierson / Alias : The New Republic
"London" is deeply dumb, so anything offensive is more a byproduct of thoughtlessness than an act of willful intention. Still, Najafi's ambition to make an old-fashioned action flick means reverting to a bygone way of seeing America's place in the world.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
The action is pumped up. The destruction is extreme. The whole thing is absurd.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
It makes the 2013 original Olympus Has Fallen - loglined as "Die Hard in the White House" - seem in nostalgic comparison like quality entertainment and a model of logic and good taste.

Name : Kate Lloyd / Alias : Time Out
Joyously ridiculous.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Cruddily crafted, grimacingly performed and effortlessly racist, this sloppy dish of Gruel Britannia may just go down well enough to green-light a continuing franchise of global destruction. World capitals quiver.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
director Babak Najafi, who not surprisingly staged something called Easy Money II, botches the action sequences so crudely, consistently and cynically that he makes Michael Bay look like Kurosawa.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
I don't know the best way to deal with America's enemies, but I suspect a jingoistic macho-porn slaughterfest is not likely to win hearts and minds.

Name : Vadim Rizov / Alias : AV Club
The Farewell Party leaves no doubt as to where it stands on the right to die with dignity when facing terminal illness, but it's so clumsily made that it serves only to exasperate.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A gentle but pointed work that walks a particular line to create a specific tone, a consistently warm and comic film about an unmistakably serious subject.

Name : Stephen Holden / Alias : New York Times
For all its sensitivity to the subject, "The Farewell Party" makes a number of tonal missteps .

Name : Kevin P. Sullivan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
The drama falls somewhere on the spectrum between Michael Haneke's devastating Amour and the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel movies, but the result is a film that's frank about death without leaving you cold.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
This is straight-up commercial comedy, low-keyed division, and while it can't hold a candle to recent, dark-comic Israeli achievements such as Joseph Cedar's "Footnote," the actors more than save it.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
It's taking a strong stand on the morality of mercy killing, no doubt, but it also acknowledges the precious glory of life. It's a rare film that can smile while studying suffering.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
The themes are life and death, but the tone stays breezy.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
I can't recall any film ever making me laugh and cry in complete comic and dramatic balance like "The Farewell Party."

Name : Mark Matousek / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
How refreshing for a film to stare death in the face and find compassion reflected in its gaze.

Name : Abby Garnett / Alias : Village Voice
The Farewell Party makes drama out of right-to-die politics and asserts that just about everyone who makes it past a certain age will have to contend with the issue in one way or another.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The gags in the movie's first half are so unapologetically mordant that I was disappointed to see them dwindle to nothing in the second, as so often happens in stories like this one.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
A bittersweet, wryly comic, keenly observed look at senescence from Israeli directors Sharon Maymon and Tal Granit.

Name : Randy Cordova / Alias : Arizona Republic
It never lapses into mawkishness, but remains clear-eyed and compassionate. It's not coldly clinical; instead, the characters are treated with grace and respect.

Name : Tirdad Derakhshani / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
For all its talk of death, The Farewell Party, featuring a terrific ensemble cast, is a story about life. Always honest, graceful and funny it explores with deep compassion its characters familial and romantic relationships.