Factual error: Near the finale, Kang sends a command to all US based missiles to self-destruct in their silos, thereby detonating their warheads. Ignoring for the moment why "self-destruct in silo" would ever be a desirable scenario programmed into ICBM protocols, detonation of a nuclear warhead requires an extremely precise sequence of events, none of which would include a nearby, conventional explosion. (01:38:20)
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)
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Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Gerard Butler, Angela Bassett, Ashley Judd, Robert Forster
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Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs: Banning is ex-Special Forces. Ranger battalion. He will move mountains or die trying. (00:42:35)
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