White House Down

You might ask, Why did you choose White House down to be your first review in almost 5 years? Well I'd have to answer that question with another question, what makes a good action film? One of my screenwriting professors in college once told me, "You need three things an audience has never seen before" and in that case White House Down is a candidate for the BEST action film of all time!!!! Wait... On second thought, I don't think that a basketball hoop flipping a secret service car over, a White House tour guide killing a ex convict with an antique clock, and an African American president beating a guy for touching his "Jordans" qualifies this film. 

Although the villain in this film gets a great start by being the previous voice of the widely feared character Hades from Hercules (the animated film), I don't think his fiery hair and witty banter quite transfer into this new brain cancer suffering father, bent on revenge.  The music, horrible CGI and an atrocious acting move this film into a realm of laughable enjoyment that honestly, I just couldn't turn off! The music that accompanied, what would usually be an edge of your seat experience, was "driving miss daisy-esque"leading me believe that maybe this was all a joke and at any moment there was going to a musical number where Channing Tatum would rip off his pants and reprise his role as the struggler stripper. However nothing even remotely close to that exciting happened and I was left in the end with my mouth agape as a young girl waived off a US air strike using her flag dancing skills on the White House lawn. Was Channing Tatum the hero? Nay, it was definitely the way that girl handled that flag. 

Don't get me wrong, I loooovvvee Channing Tatum (when he has his shirt off) and personally I think Jamie Foxx was remarkable in Collateral and The Soloist, however this film should never have been shown to the public. A special thank you to Chad Patterson and this horrific film, for getting me back on the horse and stayed tuned for some actually recommendable films in the near future.