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Though maybe not for the reasons we think… Saw Olympus Has Fallen over the weekend and had a really good time overall. Big dumb action movies are my guilty pleasure… I make no pretense to their quality, I know most of them don't hold up to any kind of critical review, but I buckle in for the ride and, if the ride is fun then I count it as time well spent at the movies. So I enjoyed the ride, even though I had some qualms by the time I walked out. My first reaction was that, as long as you could ignore the ridiculous plot devices in the third act, it was a pretty good movie. Lots of action, with good performances all around (and, as an actor, I have to admit that good performances will let me ignore a lot of other failings). I was especially amused by the way the audience burst into spontaneous applause each time Gerard Butler's character efficiently eliminated the movie's terrorist villains. There's no pretense to "I'm the good guy, so must show compassi