Judged by the merits of serious filmmaking, the legends of the craft, and the movies that go down in history as being powerful, groundbreaking, or novel, this is a by-the-numbers flop of a thriller. There's absolutely no sex or romance, but there's some language, including a single "f-k you," plus "s-t," "bitch," and "a-hole." Ultimately it's a crowd-pleasing action movie with a well-intentioned but slightly contradictory message involving both peace and the importance of armed defense. A young girl is frequently in danger and is almost killed on a couple of occasions (which ups the movie's intensity level), and the president seems dead. There are a few hand-to-hand combat scenes and a tense hostage situation in which people (some in high levels of the administration) are executed or wounded. Like Independence Day, which was also directed by Roland Emmerich, there's a lot of violence, but most of it is on a grand scale - explosions, helicopters/planes crashing, and deaths the audience doesn't see too up close. Parents need to know that White House Down is a patriotic thriller in the vein of Olympus Has Fallen and Independence Day, in which the country is saved by one brave man with a gun - in this case Channing Tatum. Which Side of History? How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives.
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