Roland Emmerich is a director I greatly admire so what on earth possessed him to try and copy the style of Michael Bay; and do a really poor job of it to boot!? And the scriptwriter was the rich boy James Vanderbilt whose only real claim was that he "reinvented", or should we say copied, the Spider Man movies buy sticking Amazing in front. I like Jamie Foxx and I hate to say it but he was miscast and pitiful in this role. And then to round it all off it was basically, as other reviewers have stated, a mish-mash of Olympus Has Fallen and Die Hard with Channing Tatum as a "Lite" version of Bruce Willis or Gerard Butler. Without the blatant plagiarism I may have given this a 5 if I tried really hard to be objective and treat it on its own merits but I can't so it gets a 2 for half decent action scenes. I thought this type of stuff was left to the likes of "The Day The Earth Stopped", "Independence Daysaster" and equally bad straightforward rip-offs.
Review of White House Down
