Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
The Damage: John Harrison, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, per🔜suades Starfleet Officer ꧟Thomas Harewood (Noel Clarke) to wear an explosive fashion accessory to work at a public archive in London.
The result? By🌠e bye, archive - a terrifying strike, but small-scale property damage compare♑d to what he does to San Francisco.
Destructometer: 2/10
The Core (2003)
The Damage: If anything goes wrong in London, the pigeons will know first. That’s what The Core teaches us, a disaster movie in which the core of the Earth stops spinning – really &nd🔜ash; causꦕing birds to splatter into office buildings around Trafalgar Square.
The windows break, but a double-decker bus suffer🔯s the worst of the avian attack, crashing into two small cars. Hitchcock would be spinning in his grave. Unlike that core.
Destructometer: 1/10
Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966)
The Damage: “Rebels of London, leave your h✅iding places… soon we will destroy ꧒London completely and you will all die.”
We only see a van and a pylon cr🦄ushed in the vicini🌄ty of Watford, but this rare feature-length outing for Dr. Who (starring Peter Cushing) takes place after the Daleks have flattened most of the city.
Luckily, Bill McGuffie’s jaunty jazz score stops things getting too sinister, while the Daleks make sure they leave Westminster Bridge in one piece – you think going up s꧋tairs is hard for them? Try crossing th𒐪e river.
Destructometer: 8/10
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
The Damage: The Millennium Bridge was declared potentially unsafe when it was first built due to lateral vibrations from footsteps, bꩲut that’s nothing compared to Harry Potter&rsqu💖o;s seventh outing, which took out the landmark using nothing but magic black smoke. Diagon Alley is also consumed.
Destructometer : 6/10
