Paris Has Fallen

Started off in a promising way and actually quite enjoyed the first couple of episodes , then I lost it. The two leads spend their time being indestructible in a ridiculous fashion. Tiny female constantly killing tough guys in arm to arm combat. Every time the terrorists get them in their sights they let them go, as opposed to every other policeman they shoot on sight. We ended up shouting at the television to the terrorists, "Just shoot them" Then there are time wasting subplots going on with her druggy waster of a girlfriend. We ended up siding with terrorists in the end, got so fed up up with the whole thing. Just don't waste your time, it was so daft and frustrating to watch.

...then the creator Howard Overman wants to write and produce his show and all goes downhill from there.

Dialogues are predictably awful

Scenes in Paris were made like the city has no cops no tourists no body living there...just like every time they start shooting nobody notice or what?

They send the two main characters to fight a full well-trained army of terrorists pretty much by themselves...

They're so many holes in this plot that the original idea - that is pretty good - becomes irrelevant to all the amateurish production..

On the only good side...some good fight that makes it OK to call it an action series.

That is probably the only season you'll get

BTW the same creator had another great idea (War of the Worlds remake) but it all went downhill the same way...this guy should really hire someone else to write the stories.

4.5/10.

Most interesting to me is how easily people are convinced that the person exacting revenge is the terrorist... he WAS the terrorist when he was 'on assignment' in someone else's country where he didn't belong...but then he's betrayed by his own country...(this is revealed right in the beginning so i'm not considering it a 'spoiler'). GROSSly betrayed...so then he seeks vengeance for that betrayal and is labeled a terrorist and everyone picks up on that, including the featured reviewer...how typical...and i've seen this time and time again... America invades country after country and some of them come seeking revenge and are labeled 'terrorists'. On top of which, of course, they send their OWN young to these foreign countries not caring what happens to them(SO proven true by what kind of care/support they get when, no IF they get back to their own country...so nobles and serfs, still...and legitimized through terms like 'patriotism'...'keeping the world safe for democracy'. When all they're REALly doing is making certain people and industries wealthier... i think the strength in characterization of the lead three characters is what carries the show and is worthy of the rating i gave it...AND...what Vincent does in the last episode, imo, further speaks to how he saw himself and what i said above...originally i gave it a 6, but just am coming back to add this and raise it to a 7...the show is typical. Generic. Predictable, with some interesting characters and the expected action sequences...one thing i will say in its favor is it, like so many other shows will do, never felt like it was spinning its wheels/stretching so that it could last over the 8 episodes.

The British Embassy in Paris is holding a party. Jacob Pearce (Sean Harris) leads a well armed group to infiltrate the gather. Zara Taylor (Ritu Arya) is a MI6 operative. Vincent Taleb (Tewfik Jallab) is protecting the French Minister of Defense. Pearce led a Foreign Legion group in Afghanistan which was captured by the Taliban. He wants revenge for an unspecified conspiracy.

The "Has Fallen" franchise is not to be taken seriously. It is a franchise based on mindless action fun. Somebody is attacked. Something has fallen. It's not a hard concept or a home to smart writing. At least, this show is staying in that general area. It's not smartly written and there is action. It does abandon the concept of a short time period in the movies. The problem starts with the pile of cash. It is straight up Joker. It is non-realistic. That's the moment when I realized what this show is and what's its limitation. It's not to be taken seriously and it works to gin up tension whether it's deserved or not.

If you want a serious and realistic series, then don't watch this.

This series is over the top, but so much fun to watch. I like the humour in it. I think it's better than the movies from which this is inspired from. There is no dull moments, there's always something going on.

It's well filmed and they know how to build great tension.

The personal relationships are clichés, but they are integral part of the storyline and don't feel forced.

As usual, Sean Harris is amazing as the bad guy.

I like the dynamics between Jalab and Arya and I hope they can be reunited in a 2nd season, or somethin else.