This preposterous scheme is being masterminded by the retiring veteran head of the Secret Service detail, who is dying and seems to blame the president for his soldier son’s death in the Middle East. The hawkish vice president (Michael Murphy) takes command and orders an attack on the White House, where the terrorists are holding 60 hostages in addition to the president and demanding $500 million in cash. Separated from her father, she alerts the world to the White House home invasion by uploading video from her cellphone to YouTube, provoking a full-blown constitutional crisis. RELATED: WHY CHANNING TATUM IS THE NEW KING OF HOLLYWOOD While Afghanistan War hero Cale and a fearful Sawyer are hiding in elevator shafts and trying to sneak out through an underground tunnel (we’re told JFK used it to smuggle Marilyn Monroe into the White House), Cale’s spunky daughter Emily is doing her own patriotic duty. And even funnier when the president puts on his glasses before firing an assault weapon at a baddie who has Cale pinned down in the kitchen. It’s a hoot when President Sawyer, who very obviously lacks any military training, tries to aim a rocket launcher at a vehicle full of bad guys on the South Lawn of the White House.
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Tatum’s cop, John Cale, has snuck onto a tour with his precocious 12-year-old daughter Emily (the winning Joey King) after blowing an interview to join the presidential Secret Service detail.Ĭale gets a second chance to show his mettle when terrorists - who have smuggled a truckload of explosives and weapons into the White House under the pretense of a sound upgrade for the screening room - take the Lincoln-loving president hostage after instantly killing off all the agents charged with protecting him. The latest epic from master of disaster Roland Emmerich is his most entertaining since “Independence Day” - amusingly referenced by a White House tour guide in the new film, which is a lot funnier than you’d guess from some of the trailers.
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You couldn’t ask for a more fun summer popcorn movie than “White House Down.” The buddy action-comedy teams the ever-ingratiating Channing Tatum, as a hunky, off-duty DC cop, with Jamie Foxx, slyly amusing as President Sawyer, a very thinly disguised version of our current chief executive.
Jamie Foxx, left, and Channing Tatum star in “White House Down.” (AP)