White House Down
Even after been denied a job at the White House, a capitol police on tour with his daughter must spring into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders.
21 November 1975, Hackettstown, New Jersey, USA
25 March 1967, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
30 January 1965, Montréal, Québec, Canada
29 March 1981, Libreville, Gabon
18 January 1971, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
19 December 1969, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
13 December 1967, Terrell, Texas, USA
30 July 1999, Los Angeles, California, USA
1953, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
5 May 1938, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 April 1976, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
26 April 1985, Leipzig, Germany
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 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.
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.
August 08, 2016
Ultimately, I was bored by White House Down, which is pretty much inexcusable given the level of sublime idiocy on display.
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.
July 03, 2013
The special effects are scary-hairy enough to satisfy the midsummer "I wish to go to the moon" impulse.
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.
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.
October 08, 2015
While none of the tentpoles this summer are doozies, this one is at least something worth cheering about.
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.
