
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleWhite House Down aims to be a low-brow slab of mindless summer fun. Most of the time, it comes pretty close to hitting the bull’s eye. |
| TV GuideJason BuchananEmmerich is obviously a storyteller who's comfortable working on such a sprawling canvas, and as a result it all coalesces in a near-perfect popcorn flick. |
| Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallWhite House Down is nearly enough fun to be a bad movie that's a good time. But it always finds some way of being a drag, belching exposition and weak humor when action's all we need, then carrying the action to exhausting lengths. |
| The PlaylistKevin JagernauthWhite House Down wants to riff on the stirring action crowd-pleasers of old. But instead of playing on those motifs, White House Down becomes a slave to them, turning into the very kind of rote, brainless, poorly choreographed and leaden action movie it wants to lighten up. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura Clifford...the second 'Die Hard in the White House' movie of 2013, Emmerich serves up a buddy movie that may be the most unintentionally(?) hilarious comedy of the summer. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin Covert"White House Down" is wonderfully violent and often laugh-out-loud funny, a shopworn premise resuscitated as a sweaty, rousing, ironic, intense, movie-love-reaffirming free-for-all. |
| Movie ChambersPaul ChambersCall it a thriller with some weird comedy riffs, heavy-handed politics and a screenplay that bears too much of a resemblance to the original "Die Hard." |
| Television Without PityEthan AlterWhite House Down is as much a comic book fantasy as something like The Avengers. |
| The Movie MinuteJoanna LangfieldDirector Roland Emmerich throws everything he can into this popcorn blow 'em up: yes, there is even a kitchen sink. |
| Richard Roeper.comRichard Roeper[A] cartoonish, offensive, overblown, clanging, steaming piece of ... cinema. |