Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
For this even crasser sequel [Fuqua has] been replaced by director Babak Najafi, who thinks that if four people with assault weapons are good, than 40 are even better.

Name : Andy Klein / Alias : TheWrap
Agent Banning is the latest in a long line of heroes whose every bullet kills someone while the bad guys constantly spray him with hundreds of bullets from machine guns, none of which seem to hit the target.

Name : Leah Pickett / Alias : Chicago Reader
[Butler and Eckhart's] mildly diverting performances aren't enough to dislodge the film's troubling pro-engagement message.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
The sequel swaps cunning for brutal violence and turns Banning into a one man killing machine.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
It's all silly and meant to be fun, except when Najafi tries to throw in some serious bits, which wind up being sillier still.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : MTV
Butler doesn't even have his own catchphrase. He just poaches two of Schwarzenegger's, bellowing both "Get to the chopper!" and "I'll be back!"

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
President Benjamin Asher needs two things: better security personnel and better scriptwriters.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
I don't know the best way to deal with America's enemies, but I suspect a jingoistic macho-porn slaughterfest is not likely to win hearts and minds.

Name : Tim Grierson / Alias : The New Republic
"London" is deeply dumb, so anything offensive is more a byproduct of thoughtlessness than an act of willful intention. Still, Najafi's ambition to make an old-fashioned action flick means reverting to a bygone way of seeing America's place in the world.

Name : Matthew Lickona / Alias : San Diego Reader
Somewhere along the line, it may occur to you that Babak Najafi's sequel to 2013's president-in-peril pic Olympus Has Fallen is a sly attack on America masquerading as a celebration of same.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Represents a geopolitical obliteration fantasy flushed from the mind of the angriest and dumbest and most conspiracy-minded among us.

Name : Brad Wheeler / Alias : Globe and Mail
Butler's dark gusto is unexplained, and his character lacks the charisma and one-liners of fellow macho world-savers Rambo, James Bond and John McClane.

Name : Tom Russo / Alias : Boston Globe
While taking the action to an international stage, the lumbering story isn't at all concerned with legit drama, let alone intelligently considering the ramifications of the mayhem it imagines.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
London Has Fallen is Donald Trump in film form.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
This one's strictly for Butler fans, and for R-rated action audiences hungry for a scenario in which the good, and mostly white, people pick off the brown, completely inhumanly bad people by the dozen.

Name : Kate Lloyd / Alias : Time Out
Joyously ridiculous.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Cruddily crafted, grimacingly performed and effortlessly racist, this sloppy dish of Gruel Britannia may just go down well enough to green-light a continuing franchise of global destruction. World capitals quiver.

Name : Christian Holub / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
By casting its villain as a suspiciously ISIS-like Middle Eastern terrorist network, London Has Fallen makes itself into a political movie-but its politics are heinous.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
London Has Fallen is competently made and offers what any viewer would reasonably expect. There's plenty of action, a fair amount of wide-scale destruction, and a rousing climax.

Name : David Lewis / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
You've seen everything on the screen before - many, many times. For every bullet, and you will lose count, there is a cliche.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Racist, stupid and boasting cheesy effects that wouldn't pass muster on basic cable.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
London Has Fallen is one of those rare films that is good at absolutely nothing.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
"London Has Fallen" is remarkable only because of how much worse it is than its inane predecessor, 2013's "Olympus Has Fallen."

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
It makes the 2013 original Olympus Has Fallen - loglined as "Die Hard in the White House" - seem in nostalgic comparison like quality entertainment and a model of logic and good taste.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
director Babak Najafi, who not surprisingly staged something called Easy Money II, botches the action sequences so crudely, consistently and cynically that he makes Michael Bay look like Kurosawa.

Name : Richard Roeper / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Like the original, London Has Fallen features a top-notch cast and some crackling good action sequences. And, alas, like the original, this is a cliche-riddled, aggressively violent, laughably plotted exploitation flick.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Butler manfully dispenses justice here many times over, and even if the other main actors are in it strictly for the paycheck, they've all been in a whole lot worse in their time.

Name : Lindsey Bahr / Alias : Associated Press
This sort of movie was made for television viewing. You could tune in or out at any moment and really not miss anything. Or just have a drink beforehand and bring your rowdiest friends to the theater.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
An impossibly enjoyable live-action cartoon that plays on our real-life anxieties about vengeful cadres of foreign radicals blowing up people - and places.

Name : Adam Graham / Alias : Detroit News
It's rarely exciting or suspenseful, and some of the digital effects are also reminiscent of a 1980s action movie level.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
The action is pumped up. The destruction is extreme. The whole thing is absurd.

Name : Kyle Anderson / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Sinister 2 doesn't know what it wants to be, and doesn't add up to much.

Name : Andy Webster / Alias : New York Times
Despite Mr. Ransone's goofy charm, "Sinister 2" can't claim the same finesse, substituting pedestrian plotting and a more graphic gore for the original's restraint.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
This sequel, as rough as it is, might be more worthwhile than its 2012 original.

Name : Keith Uhlich / Alias : AV Club
Not a moment of Sinister 2 is convincing or frightening, mostly due to the uber-stilted child acting and the flat, overlit visual palette, which pales in comparison to what Derrickson and cinematographer Chris Norr achieved on the shadow-laden first film.

Name : Andrew Barker / Alias : Variety
Anyone who found the original a cut above the average horror pic will likely leave the theater disappointed, if not downright insulted.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Creepy kids and sick jokes make for meager scares, but Ransone is likable as the film's beleaguered hero.

Name : Katharine Pushkar / Alias : New York Daily News
Baghuul . looks like the lead singer in a Norwegian forest metal band.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
A serviceable if somewhat redundant horror sequel that dribbles out its secrets slowly, "Sinister 2" doesn't have a particularly satisfying end - it's somehow both too drawn-out and abrupt - but it's got creepiness galore.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Although Sinister 2 continues the story begun in Scott Derrickson's creepily effective Sinister, it feels more like an unnecessary retread than an organic extension of the original.

Name : John Semley / Alias : Globe and Mail
Nothing in Sinister 2 comes across as believably scary.

Name : Justin Lowe / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Sinister 2 comes up a bit short on creative resources, although director Ciaran Foy probably gets enough right to entice those partial to the original.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
There comes a point when you have to say no to these horror sequels. There's no skill or idea visible anywhere, just the sound of money being sucked from your pockets.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Nothing about "Sinister 2" comes close to the feel-bad ode to literally and figuratively dark interiors that distinguished the title-earning original.