It seems many people miss the point of this film. If you still do not realize that its only goal is to serve you dumb entertainment by the time the president grabs what appears to be a bling-bling RPG launcher with the presidential seal imprinted on it, then either you are thinking too hard or not hard enough.
I don't know why some people think this film is trying to take itself seriously. Maybe the trailer was misleading, I have no idea because over the years I have learned to avoid trailers like the plague. The only purpose of a trailer is to trick you into watching the movie, not to give you a summary of the movie, not at all.
Everything in White House Down is predictable, loud, often impossible, and there are no attempts to make the events grounded in reality. No, a few RPG shots will not destroy a real Abrams tank. No, Delta Force would not act in such a dumb manner as in this film. No, an ICBM cannot be used as a surface-to-air missile. And yes, the heroes would have died over and over again in every single action scene.
This is a simple rehash of all stupid action films of the past 30 years and it does not try to hide this fact. The weak plot is just a vehicle for the action and we all know every plot device showed in the first dozen minutes will be used somewhere in the finale. The good and bad guys are all cardboard characters, there are silly one-liners, and we have seen it all before. But why would that be a bad thing? If it is reasonably well made, then it can be a lot of fun to watch, and I found that to be the case with this movie.
I actually enjoyed this more than the suspiciously similar Olympus Has Fallen. That one did give more of an impression of trying to take itself seriously, but otherwise had the same ingredients — when I first saw a poster for WHD, I actually wondered "hey, haven't I already seen this?". If you're going to make something as preposterous as this, you'd better make it look the part, and I believe WHD does a better job at that than OHF.
I don't know why some people think this film is trying to take itself seriously. Maybe the trailer was misleading, I have no idea because over the years I have learned to avoid trailers like the plague. The only purpose of a trailer is to trick you into watching the movie, not to give you a summary of the movie, not at all.
Everything in White House Down is predictable, loud, often impossible, and there are no attempts to make the events grounded in reality. No, a few RPG shots will not destroy a real Abrams tank. No, Delta Force would not act in such a dumb manner as in this film. No, an ICBM cannot be used as a surface-to-air missile. And yes, the heroes would have died over and over again in every single action scene.
This is a simple rehash of all stupid action films of the past 30 years and it does not try to hide this fact. The weak plot is just a vehicle for the action and we all know every plot device showed in the first dozen minutes will be used somewhere in the finale. The good and bad guys are all cardboard characters, there are silly one-liners, and we have seen it all before. But why would that be a bad thing? If it is reasonably well made, then it can be a lot of fun to watch, and I found that to be the case with this movie.
I actually enjoyed this more than the suspiciously similar Olympus Has Fallen. That one did give more of an impression of trying to take itself seriously, but otherwise had the same ingredients — when I first saw a poster for WHD, I actually wondered "hey, haven't I already seen this?". If you're going to make something as preposterous as this, you'd better make it look the part, and I believe WHD does a better job at that than OHF.