Spoiler Alert: We Need to Talk About the Unintentionally Hilarious Ending of 'Angel Has Fallen'

That Angel Has Fallen is one of the worst movies of 2019 should come as no surprise. Olympus Has Fallen is a legendary terrible movie in which Gerard Butler originated his meathead, franchise fronting, character, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning. That was followed up by London Has Fallen, another desperately moronic action flick in which Butler took the macho nonsense of Olympus has Fallen and brought it to the international stage.

In Angel Has Fallen, Butler is once again playing dunderheaded, indestructible, Secret Service Agent Mike Banning. Mike is about to be named as the head of the Secret Service by President Trumbell (Morgan Freeman, slumming for a paycheck). However, Mike is hiding the fact that he's suffering from post-concussion syndrome from his previous adventures. Mike has headaches and is reliant on opioids. Yeah, Angel Has Fallen is relevant like that.

There are many things that are quite unintentionally funny about Angel Has Fallen. There is the ludicrous attempt to use the opioid crisis to create 'relevance,' there is Nick Nolte playing mountain man cliches to high camp effect in full, Nick Nolte glory, and then there is the script. The script for Angel Has Fallen is chockablock with some of the most poignantly silly macho shouting ever brought to the screen.

But, nothing in Angel Has Fallen reaches the unintentional comic heights of that ending. The ending of Angel Has Fallen blew my mind in it's remarkable employment of macho movie cliche. It's as if an action movie obsessed teenager from the 80's was transported to our time just to write the single dumbest action movie ending in history. The end of Angel Has Fallen is dumb on a remarkable level. So, strap in, and allow me to paint you a truly hilarious picture.

Interior: The Oval Office.

It's a gray and dreary day in Washington D.C as Secret Service Agent Mike Banning, his arm in a sling, cuts on his face, fidgets uncomfortably in his poorly tailored suit and tie, as he sits across from President Trumbell. Mike has asked for this meeting so that he can apologize to the President and clear the air. Mike has been lying about his addiction to painkillers to deal with his post-concussion syndrome.

Oh don't be mistaken, he's overcome his addiction through the sheer power of masculine will power, because that's how that works. He's here to apologize for ever having shown any type of weakness ever, in any way. Showing any kind of weakness in a Fallen movie, whether it is being shot, run over by a car, getting in massive car accidents and explosions, you're not allowed to actually feel pain. I'm sure that having Banning wear his arm in a sling in the final scene was only a way to guarantee he didn't pick up the President's desk and bench press it a few times just to make sure we know that he lifts, bro.

Because of Mike's actions, his weakness and addiction, which he has totally overcome due to his super-powered testosterone, and the near assassination of the President, Mike has come to the oval office to offer his resignation as the President's top protector. Does he have a letter with him with his signature on it that the President will dramatically tear up as a sign that he still believes in his top guardian 'Angel?' No, but that would be an appropriately hackneyed cliche.

No, instead, in a move that absolutely blew my mind with how remarkably silly it is, Gerard Butler's dopey secret agent handed over his badge to the President of the United States as if he were an old west sheriff. I cannot tell you how tickled I was by this jaw-droppingly silly moment when Angel Has Fallen turns the President of the United States into the grouchy Police Captain from some 1980's action movie.

The aching, creaky, incredibly lame and blindingly simpleminded macho cliche on display here absolutely floored me. It tickled me so much that I could not control my laughter. I laughed loudly from my belly. I haven't laughed this hard at actual comedy released in 2019 but I laughed uncontrollably at the nonsense that was Angel Has Fallen's sad and pathetic macho posturing.

And the film wasn't even done? Did you know that this movie has the nerve to have a mid-credits scene? In the mid-credits of Angel Has Fallen, Gerard Butler's traumatized Secret Agent and his mountain man, survivalist dad played by Nick Nolte go to a new-age salon of some sort of Flotation Therapy in which the craggy coots are put into flotation tanks that are intended to relax away their PTSD? Who the hell knows what is happening here? The filmmakers don't know, we don't know. It's a mysteriously dumb and unnecessary coda with a punchline that is simply, someone shutting off the lights.

It could be a real kind of therapy for all I know. I am aware of Sensory Deprivation Therapy and Flotation Therapy but they generally don't put two old dudes in the same room to scream creaky insults at each other and the therapy being provided to them. If this was intended as a masculine satire on new age therapy it missed the target by a lot. If it was meant to lampoon these two characters, that's not possible when they are already caricatures of themselves.