Foxx’s president is one that is amazed by Lincoln, spouting off trivia about him like a giddy schoolboy and clutching the dead president’s watch in his hand.
President James Sawyer, played with classy swag by Jamie Foxx, is having an early morning helicopter ride with his Secret Service cronies, which includes Finnerty (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and Walker (James Woods). In a calm before the silly storm, White House Down begins with the grace of an American flag blowing in the wind.
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It is an ugly movie that fails the Die Hard test it signs itself up for. While Emmerich only gets to blow up a couple of national landmarks (an action spectacle I could watch at the movies every week), his unsightly attitude is aimed towards satirizing current incarnations of patriotism, peace and poking at very fresh wounds of recent history that even lame shock comedians would find to be in poor taste. Thus, it fits cozily into Emmerich’s history of trolling. I didn’t have this epiphany until after I saw White House Down, a film that is cold, dumb, and ugly. No, it is primarily to unleash his own attack on audiences that he holds in contempt. Certainly when watching him showcase the deaths of billions of people onscreen in 2012 like a human being without an iota of humanity, one realizes that this director is not making these big films for some notion of the greater good. Emmerich seems to be in the wreckin’ business for the wrong reasons he isn’t stirring the pot, but spitting in it. Earlier, he lampooned international global warming anxieties with the colossally dumb The Day After Tomorrowin 2004, two years before Al Gore’s famous doc An Inconvenient Truth. This is the filmmaker who recognized the nutty 2012 apocalypse nightmares by presenting them with special effects only three years before the title event. Like a frequent YouTube comment writer, Director Roland Emmerich is the Troll King of movie land a technologically enabled commenter who sees disaster movies as opportunities to jab at his audience’s sensitivities with a sarcasm that rivals the size of his on-screen global spectacle.