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Don't play Play now More video Recommended Replay video Return to video Video settings Please Log in to update your video settings White House Down - Trailer While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save the president from a group of paramilitary invaders. PT2M12S http://www.smh.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-2jw5l 620 349 May 20, 2013 Autoplay OnOff Video feedback Video settings Reviewer rating: Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Reader rating: Rating: 1.5 out of 5 stars (17 votes) Genre Action/Adventure Running time 131 min Director Roland Emmerich Screen writer James Vanderbilt Actors Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke OFLC rating M Year 2013 Language English It's less than six months since the White House was last blown up for our entertainment. On that occasion, Gerard Butler saved the free world from further carnage. This time, the task falls to the broad-shouldered, jug-eared figure of Channing Tatum.More movie reviews It's as if September 11, 2001, never happened – or perhaps that's it. Actual catastrophe has just intensified Hollywood's urge to do what it does best and recast reality in a more optimistic form. One of the film's main strengths is its casting. It is full of actors who briefly manage to con you into the illusion you've landed in a more intelligent picture. Antoine Fuqua directed Olympus Has Fallen, which had the White House semi-demolished by North Korean terrorists. With White House Down, we're in the hands of Roland Emmerich, a serial offender. This is the third time he's assaulted 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In Independence Day, he had it destroyed by aliens. And in his tsunami movie 2012, he had it hit by the runaway aircraft carrier, John F. Kennedy. Bringing the house down: Channing Tatum as impromptu presidential bodyguard John Cale. Photo: Supplied Compared with that kind of damage, White House Down could be classified as a thoughtful character study with incidental fireworks. You're even given time to get to know Tatum's John Cale, a policeman and Afghanistan war veteran who has just been passed over after applying for a job on the President's security detail. He's stayed on after his interview to go on a White House tour with his 11-year-old daughter Emily (Joey King), who's a fervent admirer of Jamie Foxx's President James Sawyer. They're in the middle of the tour when the terrorists strike. Advertisement This time, they're locals. Screenwriter James Vanderbilt, who wrote David Fincher's Zodiac, has created a gang of familiar nasties,[url=http://www.longchamp-handbags-outlet.net]longchamp sale[/url], among them a couple of tattooed white supremacists, some ex-military men with grudges and a hacker (Jimmi Simpson) with a God complex and a passion for Beethoven symphonies a la A Clockwork Orange's Alex DeLarge. It's not a bad touch. Emmerich seems to have developed a sense of humour since his last film, Anonymous, which tried to persuade us that the Earl of Oxford had written Shakespeare's plays. My favourite character here is Donnie, the White House tour guide, who recites the provenance of the antique clock he uses to clobber one of the thugs after the same thug has shattered a piece of Meissen porcelain of which he was particularly fond. Less amusing is the idea of Foxx as a political leader. As he ponders the problems of the Middle East, he looks as if he cannot decide if he's playing the President or a talk show host. The film has its shamelessly crowd-pleasing comic moments. Cale becomes his de-facto bodyguard when he saves his life while looking for Emily. They have become separated and as he dodges the mercenaries,[url=http://www.longchamp-handbags-outlet.net]longchamp le pliage[/url], she's taken hostage with the rest of the tourists. She's a game girl with a strong resemblance to Kick Ass' Hit Girl but her only weapon is the iPhone she's using to post the mercenaries' photographs on the internet. One of the film's main strengths is its casting. It is full of actors who briefly manage to con you into the illusion you've landed in a more intelligent picture. Maggie Gyllenhaal may make an unlikely looking special agent but she's cool enough to entice you into going along with her. James Woods does well as her boss until the plot's more risible aspects overwhelm him and the ever-reliable Richard Jenkins makes a credible Speaker of the House until he, too, is done over by the preposterousness of the climax. But the film's real attractions lie in the zest with which Emmerich's action scenes exploit the White House's geography. We get to know it very well by the time Tatum and Australia's Jason Clarke - cast as the mercenaries' leader - have finished rampaging through the residence and its gardens, along with other backstage bits like its elevator shaft, basement and underground bunker. The President's armoured limousine is drawn into a shootout which lands it in the swimming pool and it would all seem gloriously irreverent if it weren't for the mawkishly triumphalist tone which keeps surfacing whenever Emmerich's wrecking ball takes a rest. The film has not gone down well at the US box office. Olympus Has Fallen didn't prove too popular either. Wholesale destruction is not the crowd pleaser it used to be. Twitter: @SandraHFilm
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