Part buddy-cop, part hostage film, part spectacle, White House Down seems to want to be about the characters, but just can’t resist turning its focus towards impressive explosions and threats of nuclear war. Of course, Emmerich has claimed that 2009’s 2012 was his last disaster picture, so with White House Down we get a chamber piece hostage film - at least relative to the other films from a man who has made a career out of global-scale destruction and mayhem.Īs the second film of 2013 to center around the White House being under attack (the other being Olympus Has Fallen), it is somewhat difficult to determine what kind of movie the filmmakers set out to make. Even all these years later, it’s still pretty shocking to see the White House under attack in a movie, and who better to do it than the master of disaster (movies), Roland Emmerich. It’s hard to believe that it has been almost 20 years since Roland Emmerich first destroyed the White House in 1996’s Independence Day.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |