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Meanwhile, John does what any father would to protect his tearful daughter: he grabs a gun and single-handedly takes on the bad guys. On the ground, Carol and her team including General Caulfield (Lance Reddick) discuss a military solution to the crisis. With the President's life in the balance, Vice President Alvin Hammond (Michael Murphy) takes to the skies with his team aboard Air Force One.
John Cale (Channing Tatum) is an ex-soldier, who is assigned to protect Speaker Of The House, Eli Raphelson (Richard Jenkins), when he would much rather be part of the Secret Service detail protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx).Īn interview for promotion conducted by Carol Finnerty (Maggie Gyllenhaal) goes badly and John licks his wounds by joining his daughter Emily (Joey King) on a guided tour of the White House just as a heavily armed paramilitary group led by Emil Stenz (Jason Clarke) prepares to take control of the building.Ī devastating blast beneath the rotunda of the US Capitol signals the start of the hostilities and Stenz and his men sweep through rooms and corridors, shooting guards until the perimeter and hostages are secure. White House Down with Jamie Foxx as President Sawyer and Channing Tatum as Cale. On the surface, the two films follow the same narrative trajectory, pitting a single man against hordes of gun-toting adversaries on a suicide mission to rescue the stricken President from diabolical captors.īoth films cower in the shadow of nuclear Armageddon but White House Down boasts more creativity with its protracted action sequences, including a hysterically overblown car chase around the grounds of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue replete with the President leaning out of a moving vehicle armed with a rocket launcher. The similarities to Olympus Has Fallen starring Gerard Butler are inescapable. White House Down is an all guns blazing tale of gung-ho heroism and flag-waving patriotism which unfolds during a terrorist attack on the US President's iconic seat of power. Not content with decimating the White House in his 1996 sci-fi blockbuster Independence Day, director Roland Emmerich reduces the Washington landmark to rubble again in this preposterous, high-octane action thriller. Jamie Foxx as President Sawyer in White House Down.