While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. Director: Roland Emmerich Writer: James Vanderbilt Stars: Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal | See full cast and crew
Storyline
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the
Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let
down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White
House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary
group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time
running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and
the country.
Let
me just begin by saying, this movie was worth the price of my ticket.
But that might just be because I got my ticket at 50% off.
The
world has seen millions of movies where USA comes under attack. This was
probably just a rehash of every single one of those movies. There was
nothing fresh, or new; there was no wow factor. Simply put, the
producers probably just took a bunch of per-molded "Lego blocks" that
had already been overused in every other action movie, threw them all
together, made a new movie, and called it "White House Down".
But
that's not to say this movie was all bad. The undeniable chemistry
between Tatum and Foxx was like a consolation for a 99.9% cliche
storyline. The light humor between the two might have just given the
audience a couple of time-outs from the heart-thumping moments during
the movie's intense sequences, making the somewhat draggy, long-winded
two-hour film a little easier to sit through. But as mentioned, a
million cliches thrown together made the storyline absolutely
predictable, so don't expect any twists.
In a nutshell, it's just
a smashup of a whole series of music hits, in movie form. But oh well,
at least the smashup was decently done.
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