All at once, a group of shady mercenaries headed by Jason Clarke (from Zero Dark Thirty) make their way into the White House and blow up the Capitol building. At the same time, President Sawyer (Jamie Foxx, playing a thinly veiled Barack Obama), is nearing peace in the Middle East with a new treaty. He doesn’t get the job, a fact which he hides from his daughter when they take a White House tour. To impress his precocious 11-year old, Emily (Joey King), Cale arranges to interview for a Secret Service job with department head Agent Finnerty (Maggie Gyllenhaal). At least he’s consistent.Ĭhanning Tatum stars as former soldier John Cale, who now serves as part of the security detail for Speaker of the House Raphelson (Richard Jenkins). These qualities apply to almost every film bearing Emmerich’s name.
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The movie follows Emmerich’s prototypical path where the mass destruction of various iconic monuments inspires awe-faced onlookers to regard the horror with amazement also, his first act is drawn out, his cheesy characters utter sloppy dialogue, and his third act feels rushed and sloppily assembled. Anyone familiar with Emmerich’s body of work knows exactly how he operates (outside of his refreshingly smart turn on the underseen Anonymous in 2011), and he doesn’t deviate from his usual schema here. Just as corny and ham-fisted as his earlier films, Emmerich’s mildly light-hearted PG-13 approach on White House Down at least has a streak of fun running through it, unlike the bloody, mean-spirited, R-rated experience of Olympus Has Fallen.
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Roland Emmerich-director of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012-once again brings the world to the brink of destruction, only to leave us feeling safe and sound.
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There are more similarities between the two, but why go on? They’re both borrowing actioner DNA from Die Hard. Consider the likenesses: in both movies a band of terrorists seizes the Presidential Mansion for hostage demands both contain a traitor in the Secret Service whose master plan involves stealing lots of money and gaining access to nuclear launch codes both include a scene where the flag atop the White House is knocked down, symbolizing the great national peril of the situation both represent ineffectual American military personnel outside the White House gates powerless to help the captives inside and both feature a rogue hero, a would-be Secret Service agent who saves the day all by his lonesome. These strikingly similar titles follow the same basic story structure. Of the dueling White House invasion movies released in 2013, the brainless summer blockbuster White House Down edges out March’s grave Olympus Has Fallen by not taking its absurd scenario too seriously.