White House Down

There is a certain comfort you can derive from these predictable mega-budget monsters. Trouble is, it goes on too long. It has several climactic moments, but every time you ready for the exit, the film bounces back again for the next round.

At least has the good grace to laugh at itself as it rolls out the dingbat-daft action-movie cliches.

It is appallingly funny in a way that few parodies ever manage. But it is undeniably exciting.

Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) can do these films in his sleep; which may be why they sometimes emerge as nightmares of crazed, florid hokum.

Real thrills - dependent on real, believable jeopardy - are not on offer: just cheerfully absurd spectacle and a little bit of humour.

An expensive blockbuster chuckle that doesn't last.

As an action film, White House Down does its job: it entertains and offers some very well-filmed scenes. [Full review in Spanish]

Never does White House Down surprise us or go in a direction we didn’t see coming. It’s all been manufactured to proven specifications and refuses to deviate from customary action movie schematics.

Emmerich’s action is repetitive, hackneyed, and not the least bit exciting.

t's a '90s throwback from the king of '90s disaster schlock himself, Roland Emmerich - and at the same time, weirdly prescient.