There's no way of getting away from it. They change the identity of the aggressors, but basically, the introduction mirrors the real-life horror of 9/11. At some point, the collective 'they' decided this was ok. That aside, this is a fairly unremarkable, popcorn muncher.
Here's a blog piece I wrote on the film. Happy to discuss.
https://garethrhodes.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/olympus-has-fallen-2013- film-review-by-gareth-rhodes/
Your thinking to hard.
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I fairly agree with your sentiment, but I also feel that pretty much any and everything in the world is now fair game. Just imagine how the Titanic survivors would have felt about James Cameron's film had it been made and released in the 1920's? Just an example but I think the same could be said for just about any dramatization of any disaster/attack/war in the course of history.
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
The scene where the attack plane clips the Washington Monument was interesting. Watching the way the top of the monument crumbled and fell off I was thinking, 'Now that's how the twin towers should have collapsed.'
-- "Mulder, toads just fell from the sky!"