White House Down
The nation's government is dissolving in chaos, only Cale can save his daughter, the president and the country for a paramilitary attack on the White House.
2 August 1964, Kingston, Jamaica
18 January 1971, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
18 April 1947, Vernal, Utah, USA
1953, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
5 January 1986, Lloydminster, Saskatchewan, Canada
21 November 1975, Hackettstown, New Jersey, USA
3 February 1984, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 08, 2016
Ultimately, I was bored by White House Down, which is pretty much inexcusable given the level of sublime idiocy on display.
June 19, 2016
Air Force One explodes! Black Hawks! Raptor fighter-jets going hot! Armored cars doing swan dives into the swimming pool! Sneaky plots and diversions! The Kitchen Sink!
July 03, 2013
The special effects are scary-hairy enough to satisfy the midsummer "I wish to go to the moon" impulse.
October 08, 2015
While none of the tentpoles this summer are doozies, this one is at least something worth cheering about.
June 28, 2013
Essentially a louder, sillier version of Die Hard, with John Cale standing in for John McClane, a precocious daughter standing in for the plucky wife, and, alas, no one even much trying to stand in for Alan Rickman's deliciously wicked Hans Gruber.
July 04, 2013
It's Independence Day without the aliens and a president partial to Air Jordans.
June 28, 2013
It follows the Emmerich template: a spectacle-tinged, compelling setup; a dumb, disappointing midsection; and a cheese-topped denouement that veers so close to self-parody that one is tempted to call it funny.
July 01, 2013
The main flaw of White House Down is that it overstays its welcome, thanks in large part to a silly climax that seems to unfold in three laborious acts.
July 14, 2016
The script reads as if it was written by a college freshman who just got his first taste of Zinn and Chomsky.
April 28, 2015
The best Die Hard movie since Speed.
September 10, 2013
If all you're after is a pair of mismatched heroes wisecracking their way through a series of explosive, well-mounted set pieces, look no further.
April 17, 2016
In this slash and burn effort on logic and reason in which audience misery is the target, "White House Down" is a bullseye.
