Olympus Has Fallen - Best Action Flick to start Year 2013

Review:
Olympus Has Fallen. This movie is just under my radar few weeks before it was shown in my local theaters. I guess one of the reason why i didn't manage to pick up this excellent movie is because of its ehm...rather mundane title. It somehow makes the wow factor just disappear and i almost pass it up due to its B-Grade Movie Title Name. However after looking at the impressive cast of Gerald Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman and the synopsis of a White House being taken hostage, it might just not be a bad movie after all. And to further strengthen my will to go watch this show is its director, Antoine Fuqua whom has a very impressive resume of movies directed under his belt  - Training Day Tears in The Sun, Replacement Killers, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn Finest - movies that i watch again and again. So lets get down to business
The story is very simple to follow. It revolves around a Secret Service Agent, Mike Banning whom headed a security head protecting the President of US, Benjamin Asher ( Aaron Eckhart) and his family. However after a fatal accident, President Benjamin decided to relocate Mike to a desk job at the US Treasury Department because having Mike around will remind the President on that incident. The movie then panned to 18 months later, where the President of South Korea decided to visit White House to have some discussion involving North Korea situation. During the discussion, an impressive assault by Korean terrorist against the White House left President Benjamin and his staffs held hostage by the Korean terrorist leader, Kang (Rick Yune). Thus, it is up to Mike Banning to save the day.
Simple story, right? So,
Question #1 - Is this a good action movie? 
Answer - This is one of the great action movie i have seen in many years. I truly enjoy the whole 2 hours duration of the film. The terrorist assault takes a good13mins and boy, when it hits the White House, it is a scene to be reckons with unlike the dull Red Dawn. The film also does not pause and during the assault on the White House, the Pentagon scene is also one truly tense moment with the ever reliable Morgan Freeman as acting President taking charge - much like when he was during Deep Impact.
This movie also has so many body counts - i think more than Rambo V and the violence is up a notch which is fine to me as it makes it more believable. 
Verdict:
I give it a 4 star out of 5 for an action packed movie. Now over to GI Joe: Retaliation to make similar impact