Olympus snaps together parts from a half dozen other movies Die Hard, Red Dawn, In the Line of Fire with graphic violence and the cheerful jingoism of a Tom Clancy book circa 1984. Butler makes an effective, if glum, action hero and the scenes of a domestic military attack in central D.C. are certainly compelling. Released in March, Olympus was the first of two cinematic assaults on the president's home this year, followed in June by White House Down, with Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx.
Both are entirely adequate action films, but Fuqua's direction in Olympus makes it a better thriller overall. If you like the Die Hard movies, you'll like this.
Extras: No extras on the DVD version, but with Blu-ray you'll get five production featurettes with some interesting material on the film's impressive CGI effects, plus a blooper reel.
If you want to go another direction entirely, the child custody drama , also new this week, is a genuinely heart-wrenching story with sensational performances from everyone involved.
Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan play Susanna and Beale, parents of the bright and good-hearted six-year-old girl Maisie (Onata Aprile). Susanna is an aging rock star, Beale a British art dealer. They live in a high-end Manhattan apartment building, when they're not jetting around for the demanding business of Art. The film opens with Beale and Susanna in the final stages of splitting up and Maisie is witness to domestic disturbances of astonishing emotional brutality. As played by the still, sad-eyed Oprile, Maisie doesn't react. She just absorbs it all.
Events progress and the custody battle grows bitter. Poor Maisie is batted around between households and left entirely abandoned on more than one occasion. The six-year-old spends time where six-year-olds ought not be: At smoke-filled parties, in lonely bars, on cramped tour coaches and in strangers' homes.
It's hard on the stomach, and the story threatens constantly to plunge into emotionally manipulative melodrama. But directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel keep from going over the edge by telling the story from right behind Maisie's eyes. The camera lingers at curious heights and vantages, and observes carefully selected moments. Maisie sees more than the adults know.
The film is an adaptation of the novel by Henry James, with many liberties taken by screenwriters Nancy Doyne and Carroll Cartwright. Maisie may flirt with melodrama, but it's not exploitative and the filmmakers have their reasons for putting Maisie through the ringer as they do. The film has something to say about family and children in this modern life. Watch how and when the characters use their cell phones. It's all of a piece, and the story ends well, with a certain rounded elegance.
Extras: Four deleted scenes and a directors' commentary track from McGehee and Siegel.
Also New This Week:
One of TV's very best ongoing series, HBO's Girlsfollows the fortunes of a group of twenty-something friends in New York City. The series is the creation of filmmaker Lena Dunham (Tiny Furniture) and she's the real deal.packages in audio commentaries, deleted scenes and gag reels.
Another quality HBO series also gets the season collection treatment this week with . A unique creative vision each episode is written solely by series creator Mike White Enlightened stars Laura Dern as Amy Jellicoe, an executive coming off a nervous breakdown and trying to find her higher self.
Based on the 2006 French film, the ensemble rom-comstars Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robin Williams, Susan Sarandon, Katherine Heigl, Amanda Seyfried and Topher Grace. It's about, yes, a big wedding.
The World War II drama stars Matthew Fox and Tommy Lee Jones in a joint American and Japanese production.
The very funny Mindy Kaling headlines
Robert Redford and Shia LaBeouf in the political thriller.Plus:
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