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)
Plot summary
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Gerard Butler, Angela Bassett, Ashley Judd, Robert Forster
North Korean radicals led by Kang attack and manage to take over the White House in less than 13 minutes. Following this they demand the U.S. withdraw the 7th fleet from the Korean DMZ. Mike Banning, who was removed from the president's detail after an accident where the First Lady was killed, manages to get inside the white house, rescue the president's son, and eventually, the President himself.
More mistakes in Olympus Has Fallen
Secret Service Director Lynn Jacobs: Banning is ex-Special Forces. Ranger battalion. He will move mountains or die trying. (00:42:35)
Question: How did Mike know that Forbes was a traitor and working with the terrorists?
Answer: Mike was told that there was no other agent alive in the White House, and they didn't send any more to attempt a rescue, that means if all the good agents are dead, only a rogue one can know who the mastermind was.
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Answer: Forbes slipped up by mentioning the head bad guy's name. And, as good an agent as Forbes was, it is highly doubtful, not to mention suspicious, that he'd still be roaming around by himself this long after the fall of the White House. Plus Mike ain't stupid and most likely smelled a rat. And he was correct. Forbes was dirty.
Alan Keddie