Realistic scenarios, guns blazing, important people in distress, a one-man army, and Morgan Freeman—what’s not to love? Antoine Fuqua’s latest movie, Olympus Has Fallen (2013), hit theatres on March 22 and attracted huge audiences that came to watch Gerard Butler take back what is rightfully America’s: the White House. This movie easily takes 5 stars.

The movie begins with America’s president, Benjamin Asher (played by Aaron Eckhart), at his winter retreat house with his wife, son, best friend Mike Banning (played by Butler), and multiple Secret Service members. As the family and Secret Service drive to a charity event for the President to give a speech, a devastating twist occurs where Banning has to make a decision that causes the President to demote him.

Eighteen months pass as Banning now works at the Treasury Department within earshot of the White House. Without giving viewers much time to take in what has happened, another devastating event occurs as a North Korean terrorist controlled airplane enters White House air space taking out American fighter jets and killing innocent citizens as well as other Secret Service members. As the aircraft is shot down, a group of North Korean terrorist foot soldiers take the White House with explosives and high power weaponry as almost all of the President’s Secret Service staff is killed off. Banning, seeing the action from his office window, travels to the White House due to his undying loyalty for President Asher and his son.

The President at this time was meeting with the North Korean prime minister and associates and invited them to join him in his safety bunker beneath the White House. The men with the North Korean prime minister began to shoot the Secret Service men protecting President Asher, as well as the North Korean prime minister.

Banning, at this point being the only good guy left in the White House with the upper hand, sets out to safely rescue President Asher’s son, Connor Asher (played by Finley Jacobson). If the terrorists get the President’s son, they can trade his life for the final code to set off nuclear missiles all around America within their capsules. This would cause the nation to be a desolate wasteland. With the President as a hostage, Allan Trumball (played by Morgan Freeman), the Secretary of State, takes over control of the White House’s defense from the Pentagon. He begins to gain contact with Banning and lead him through the White House for a final chance to save America.

Olympus Has Fallen, although an action-thriller, is frightening. Just thinking about how realistic these events are poses a question in the back of the minds of viewers: Are a few guns, a handful of men, some heavy artillery, and a well thought out plan all it takes to put the future of America at risk? In the end, it is just a movie—a very well done, entertaining, edge-of-the-seat movie that easily took 5 out of 5 stars.