Cole Crump’s review published on Letterboxd:
Gross and cringeworthy. This takes Americanism to another level. "In a thousand years, we'll still be here," Butler says before he proceeds to murder a terrorist. The President, before he shockingly doesn't get murdered by the same terrorist quotes his "swearing-in" in speech, to evoke a sense of patriotism and America pride in the audience. This all feels so forced and gross. If you are an America in this film, I have good news for you! Your life is important and worth saving. However, if you aren't America, sorry but you are out of luck. This is awful. Sidebar: way too many people get stabbed. Life has no value, most of the action of Americans blowing up, stabbing, shooting, ect. is there as eye candy. That is gross as well. The action is not bad in and of itself, but the value it gives is somewhat disturbing. The CGI is pretty awful as well, especially when the French President is blow up on his boat, it looks ridiculous. Miraculously out of all the national leaders in London at the time, the one leader to triumph them all is, shockingly the President of the US. I find this message to be grossly nationalistic, giving a stronger worth and importance to Americans, and the rest of the world is just lesser screw-ups that the US has to save or deal with. I find that quite problematic. This film would have been better if at the end London started chanting, "U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A." It is laughable if you don't buy into this narrative. Yet you know there have to be people who've bought into this idea and are pleased with this film. That scares me. That is a problem.