Well here is “White House Down,” the third “John McClane” movie of 2013, and they already got beat to the punch by both “Olympus Has Fallen” (a movie for which I remembered so little that I actually had to re-read my own review there as a recap) and an actual John McClane movie in “A Good Day to Die Hard” (which is just about one of the worst movies of the year), and if you really like your “lone guy taking out a team of thieves/mercs in a singular location” movies, this is going to be your best bet.
John McClane stand-in John Cale (Channing Tatum, This is the End, Side Effects) applies for a job at the U.S. Secret Service department, and he brings along his estranged daughter Emily (Joey King, The Dark Knight Rises) to the White House for his interview, scoring her some passes because he knows she is some sort of nut for the White House and its history and he needs to bribe his way back into her life because she’s pissed at him for being a shitty father who put work before parenting (very John McClane-ish of him, by the way, Emily could easily be Lucy McClane, and there’s even the estranged wife so that completes the package).Continue Reading …