He Who Dares: Downing Street Siege (2014)

Please don't spend money on this.

Let's be realistic.

Just perfect...

Expected more

HE WHO DARES: DOWNING STREET SIEGE is a sequel to a B-movie that nobody asked for. This is just as bad as the original, a straight-up rip-off of DIE HARD which comes across as completely laughable. A bunch of terrorists led by the overacting and completely irritating Simon Phillips (who was killed off in the first movie) take over 10 Downing Street, but the good news is that the hero of the first film is on the scene to take them out. It's not that the script is bad here, although it is; it's that the direction is pitifully poor. There's shaking camerawork all over the place and action scenes that look like they were directed by a five year-old. The acting is embarrassingly amateurish all round and there's never a sense of suspense or momentum despite the speed of the narrative. It's the kind of film that's only good for laughing at.

This movie is such utter dross that I hear Michael Dudikoff has called it 'woefully bad acting'.Seriously, I thought we'd gone past the truly shabby Z-Grade movies of the 1980s with woeful plot lines, wooden acting and not-so-special effects, but apparently, Tanter & Phillips decided that they could attempt something worse.Beyond the laughable 'military' inaccuracies, the grade-school acting and seriously pathetic 'special effects' is a movie that I'm actually quite surprised that anyone would even remotely consider funding.Who's portrayal is the most abysmal I hear you ask?Is it the tubby 'villan' who's about as threatening as a four-year old bully? The scrawny, unshaven artiste who is apparently our heroic SAS Major (although he appears in Corporal's stripes)? Or the any of the other clichéd losers who have had the misfortune to consider themselves actors?The worst of Neighbours, Days of Our Lives or the like shines in comparison to the efforts within this waste of time.That they spent 3 mil on this is laughable. Either they have a very, very shabby accountant or they've taken their backers for a serious ride.Worst of all, this is a sequel, which means there's more of this offal floating around out there.A shame we can't give negative scores on here.

i thought the acting in TOWIE was bad but they are class compared to this lot, the plot was bad had more holes than a Swiss cheese, the acting was more chipboard than wooden, i only kept watching it in the vain hope it would get better but sadly i was wrong. If i could give it a - score i would, how they managed to waste 3 million on it i will never know .

I don't usually write reviews, but for this very special film I'm going to make an exception.'He Who Dares: Downing Street' is by far one of the most awful films I have ever seen. It has superseded many other terrible, terrible films because it is truly, genuinely dreadful. Most bad supposedly adrenaline-fuelling, action/crime films have some redeeming features but not this one (save a few glorious seconds towards the end I will elaborate upon), some actual entertainment value, even if it's just funny to laugh at.It is no surprise that the plot is inconceivably bad, full of plot-holes and makes little sense throughout. The special effects are cringe-inducing - especially the blood whenever someone is shot, which is not infrequent in this horribly unoriginal shoot'em up - and the direction (combined with cinematography and plot) feels as if a particularly stupid 15 year old has just watched 'Die Hard' for the first time and written his own version set in Downing Street.The acting deserves particular recognition. The almost universally miscast actors are reliably wooden, irritating and make already poorly written characters even more unlikeable than they already were. From the (obviously) Conservative MP whose last words are to call the main villain a 'Pleb' to the main villain himself; Simon F*cking Phillips.Simon Phillips, who I last had the displeasure of watching in 'Meet the Firm: Revenge in Rio' is wholly awful. In-between bouts of not being very scary whilst threatening and murdering people he sometimes switches into 'comedian' mode, joking and wise-cracking (badly) whilst threatening and murdering people. Those few seconds of glory I mentioned before come when we witness Simon Phillips shot, not just once, but twice!!Unoriginal, awful, just bad, 1/10