The movie’s
twist ending is one you won’t expect, I tell you. Although I believe the ending
could have been done better if the writers had actually put more effort into
it, because it draws you in and just leaves you there with its final moments
laughable when they were meant to be memorable.
White House Down,
to me, won’t make it as a good film, mainly because Olympus
Has Fallen has the same feel—and Olympus
Has Fallen was quite good, if I can say so myself. White
House Down, on the other hand, starts off lame, with many comic moments that
just didn’t add up.
The movie had scenes that were meant to be funny but just ended up looking
ridiculous. Imagine the president being pulled by the leg by a man who’s almost
dead, and he delivers a line like:
“Get your hands off my Air Jordans!”
And many more of these meant-to-be-funny lines were thrown around for the first
half of the movie. Then, when you’re nearing the end, the movie picks up with
emotional and brave scenes, trying to draw you in and make you love it or even
move you to tears. But the problem is that it was delivered a little too late.
After disliking a movie for over an hour, then trying to pull off a miraculous comeback
in the last 30 minutes and ending it with a crash into a mountain, there’s no
way I can watch this film and recommend others to do the same.
The movie’s plot
revolves around the White House being taken over by terrorists whose endgame no
one was sure of. The president (Jamie Foxx) is captured, and in a weird twist
of events, a rejected Secret Service applicant (Channing Tatum) is in the White
House when it all happens—and his daughter gets captured by the terrorists. So,
he saves the president, tries to get him out of the White House safely, and
then goes back for his daughter.
I felt the
director, Roland Emmerich (who also directed Independence Day in
1996, though I don’t know if he’ll be on board for the sequel), was trying too
hard to deliver a punch in the final part of the movie after building up some
story depth. But the story leading to that punch was just dull and misplaced.
The acting in
the movie was top-notch. Many critics are praising Foxx and Tatum for their
delivery and chemistry, which is very much true. But to me, the person who made
me keep watching was James Woods. His portrayal of a pained father was just too
much.
In conclusion, White House Down is a movie I feel the studio should have done everything they could to release before Olympus Has Fallen. Because then, for sure, we’d be calling Olympus Has Fallen the misfit.
Its comes in average category. The beginning is somewhat slow. Story was good. There were lots of loop-holes in screening. Might be more better. Not like other Hollywood hitz.
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