Yes... you are making a work of fiction.. but you have to keep it at least a little credible!!!! I wanted this movie after a few of my friends that its a superb action and guns galore, so I thought "lets see it" and oh boy... I have stopped those friends for movie suggestions after this debacle.
The story is about a guy who is having trouble in his life.. He leads a mediocre life always failing to produce results though we all know that he is capable (Can you get anymore clichéd). He is estranged from his political crazy daughter, who now calls him by his first name and not even father, but to patch things up he asks a friend to hook him up with a pass for his daughter to see the White House, on the same day a group of militants plan on taking the White House under siege. From there on its a struggle for life and death has Channing Tatum battles every militant all most single handed to save both the President (Jamie Foxx) and his daughter.
The above story will sound interesting... the things that happen in the movie are at most laughable. Half the time was going like "Come on, Seriously"... I don't know much about political systems, but one thing is you don't change presidents like changing clothes. But, in this movie.. well its one after the other. I was half expecting that Tatum will be sworn in as president in between. The scene were they call in the air strike with thousands of civilians still in the area. I mean at least make be want to believe. Either Roland Emmerich thinks the audience are so gullible that we will believe what ever is throw at us on the screen or that the only thing that matters is to blow up everything in site and make the good guy win the day and people will be happy.
Lets on even talk about the casting. Jamie Foxx as the president just did not sit well with me. You expect the president of the United States to be a strong personality, not a comedian. Ya, I know that they did not want to make a serious movie. But, it just does not sit well with me. You decide want you wanna make, weather its comedy or serious. You shouldn't go about trying to make everything fit into one movie.
Bottom line, anyone who chooses his movies carefully and wants something other than just 90 mins of rubbish throw at you. Please don't watch this movie
The story is about a guy who is having trouble in his life.. He leads a mediocre life always failing to produce results though we all know that he is capable (Can you get anymore clichéd). He is estranged from his political crazy daughter, who now calls him by his first name and not even father, but to patch things up he asks a friend to hook him up with a pass for his daughter to see the White House, on the same day a group of militants plan on taking the White House under siege. From there on its a struggle for life and death has Channing Tatum battles every militant all most single handed to save both the President (Jamie Foxx) and his daughter.
The above story will sound interesting... the things that happen in the movie are at most laughable. Half the time was going like "Come on, Seriously"... I don't know much about political systems, but one thing is you don't change presidents like changing clothes. But, in this movie.. well its one after the other. I was half expecting that Tatum will be sworn in as president in between. The scene were they call in the air strike with thousands of civilians still in the area. I mean at least make be want to believe. Either Roland Emmerich thinks the audience are so gullible that we will believe what ever is throw at us on the screen or that the only thing that matters is to blow up everything in site and make the good guy win the day and people will be happy.
Lets on even talk about the casting. Jamie Foxx as the president just did not sit well with me. You expect the president of the United States to be a strong personality, not a comedian. Ya, I know that they did not want to make a serious movie. But, it just does not sit well with me. You decide want you wanna make, weather its comedy or serious. You shouldn't go about trying to make everything fit into one movie.
Bottom line, anyone who chooses his movies carefully and wants something other than just 90 mins of rubbish throw at you. Please don't watch this movie