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While it’s easily as ridiculous as any of Emmerich’s other movies, this time the cheese factor was just right and I ended up having a whale of a time with it. To my surprise, I ended up really getting a kick out of WHITE HOUSE DOWN. While I loved STARGATE and THE PATRIOT, and enjoyed ID4 as a kid (it plays sillier now than it did in ’97), his last few movies- 10,000 B.C, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, and 2012 really didn’t work for me except on a “so bad it’s good” kind of way. Truth be told, Roland Emmerich‘s movies haven’t worked for me in a long time.
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While that film took a hardcore, R-rated (almost retro) action approach, WHITE HOUSE DOWN is a tent-pole PG-13 movie that’s clearly aiming for the widest possible audience. REVIEW: Hey wait, doesn’t this all seem a little familiar? Didn’t Gerard Butler just save the president from North Korea? Who’s screwing with the commander in chief now? OK, to be fair James Vanderbilt‘s script for WHITE HOUSE DOWN was already making the rounds before OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN ever got close to production (read my review of that film HERE), so it’s not really a case of one movie ripping off the other.
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PLOT: When a paramilitary group takes over the White House, a U.S Capitol cop, John Cale ( Channing Tatum) – who flunked his interview to join the secret service- is the only one left to protect the president ( Jamie Foxx), and prevent World War III.