It’s like he wandered onto the set by mistake from some 80’s costume party. Channing even ends up in the obligatory Die Hard dirty white tank top by the end of the flick, but he still comes off as just a pretty boy John McClane wannabe. White House Down probably follows the formula closer than most of the Die Hard in a “specific location” flicks.

Considering the less than enthused response to A Good Day to Die Hard, this definitely could’ve been a more interesting story direction. This film could have easily been the next entry in the Die Hard film franchise.

While the recent “White House under siege flick”, Olympus Has Fallen, took a more serious R-rated action approach, White House Down takes the more entertaining PG-13 buddy action film path. Cale is separated from his kid in all the commotion and finds himself having to protect the President while trying to figure out a way to save his kidnapped daughter. While on the White House tour, a group of rogue paramilitary-types take over the building. As a single dad, he hopes the trip will give him some brownie points with his daughter, because she’s a huge fan of President Sawyer(played by a restrained Jamie Foxx). When he finally gets an interview at the White House for such a position, he takes his daughter along. He yearns for something more, primarily, a job as a Secret Service agent for the President. White House Down stars Channing Tatum as John Cale, a US Capital police officer whose main job is to protect the Speaker of the House(Richard Jenkins). How does all this destructive mayhem shape up as a movie? Find out in my full review of White House Down after the break. He obliterated the White House via spaceship deathray in Independence Day, crushed it with an aircraft carrier in 2012 and now, in his newest action film, he wreaks DC havoc with all kinds of explosions, gunfights and military warfare inside and outside the residence at 1900 Pennsylvania Avenue. White House Down is the third in Roland Emmerich’s trilogy of films, where he unleashes his destructive tendencies towards the Presidential abode.

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