White House Down
Posted by Itheliving 12 years, 4 months ago to Movies
White House Down / Rated PG-13 for violence, bad language and really bad guys threatening and hitting small children.
Director Roland Emmerich is known for big effects films with a theme of destruction. Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), 2012 (released in 2009) all had big and very bad things happening to mankind. Of the group, ID was by far the best being a copy of the main theme from the original Star Wars film. He also directed the Mel Gibson version of the Disney Swamp Fox TV show with Leslie Nielsen in the title role and called his big budget version The Patriot (2000). While it looked great and was supported by a wonderful John Williams score, the story was very derivative of the above mentioned Disney series and too melodramatic. His bad guy was so evil I dubbed him “Darth Redcoat”.
RE now has the bad luck to open his terrorist take-over of the White House just three months after Olympus Has Fallen premiered in March of 2013. OHF had the same theme with different characters carrying out the attack. In this version of the story, a highly politicized group of fanatics does the take over which includes the slaughter and destruction of the WH and all there-in. Channing Tatum plays the Secret Service agent wannabe who ends up in the middle of the plot. He, of course, is a highly trained martial artist war veteran who is also a weapons expert and killing machine. Jamie Foxx plays the President who everybody is after and only Channing can protect.
Young but feisty Joey King (born in 1999) is CT’s daughter and also on the run inside the White House. Vet actor James Woods is the senior Secret Service Agent caught up in the mix on the day he had planned to retire. Lots of big set action scenes are used to supply plenty of explosions, automatic discharge of thousands of rounds of ammunition, leaving the WH pretty much a mess. The film also steals ideas from the original Bruce Willis Die Hard (1988) and attempts to work on multiple levels at the same time. To a lesser extent it succeeds and also has a pretty good sense of humor along the way. Roland could have presented his story better by leaving out the constant threats and violence perpetrated on the young girl’s wee personage.
Channing does fine as the action hero and Jamie does his best to keep up while acting Presidential. The film goes way overboard in assigning specific blame for the attack which is far too political and biased. Many of those in on the attack are on the team for money. The real bad guys have more evil planned but they, of course, never counted on Channing being there at the time.
Let’s hope other movies with the White House under attack don’t come out this year. Two is more than enough anyway.
Rated 2.75 out of 4.0 reasons to ask “can’t we all just try to get along”? The answer in White House Down is NO.
Director Roland Emmerich is known for big effects films with a theme of destruction. Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), 2012 (released in 2009) all had big and very bad things happening to mankind. Of the group, ID was by far the best being a copy of the main theme from the original Star Wars film. He also directed the Mel Gibson version of the Disney Swamp Fox TV show with Leslie Nielsen in the title role and called his big budget version The Patriot (2000). While it looked great and was supported by a wonderful John Williams score, the story was very derivative of the above mentioned Disney series and too melodramatic. His bad guy was so evil I dubbed him “Darth Redcoat”.
RE now has the bad luck to open his terrorist take-over of the White House just three months after Olympus Has Fallen premiered in March of 2013. OHF had the same theme with different characters carrying out the attack. In this version of the story, a highly politicized group of fanatics does the take over which includes the slaughter and destruction of the WH and all there-in. Channing Tatum plays the Secret Service agent wannabe who ends up in the middle of the plot. He, of course, is a highly trained martial artist war veteran who is also a weapons expert and killing machine. Jamie Foxx plays the President who everybody is after and only Channing can protect.
Young but feisty Joey King (born in 1999) is CT’s daughter and also on the run inside the White House. Vet actor James Woods is the senior Secret Service Agent caught up in the mix on the day he had planned to retire. Lots of big set action scenes are used to supply plenty of explosions, automatic discharge of thousands of rounds of ammunition, leaving the WH pretty much a mess. The film also steals ideas from the original Bruce Willis Die Hard (1988) and attempts to work on multiple levels at the same time. To a lesser extent it succeeds and also has a pretty good sense of humor along the way. Roland could have presented his story better by leaving out the constant threats and violence perpetrated on the young girl’s wee personage.
Channing does fine as the action hero and Jamie does his best to keep up while acting Presidential. The film goes way overboard in assigning specific blame for the attack which is far too political and biased. Many of those in on the attack are on the team for money. The real bad guys have more evil planned but they, of course, never counted on Channing being there at the time.
Let’s hope other movies with the White House under attack don’t come out this year. Two is more than enough anyway.
Rated 2.75 out of 4.0 reasons to ask “can’t we all just try to get along”? The answer in White House Down is NO.
