White House Down (2013)
Directed by Roland Emmerich this film stars Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Wood. A police officer takes his daughter to the White House for a job interview with the Secret Service on the day it gets taken over by bad guys.
If Olympus Has Fallen (2013) was a right wing paranoid fantasy then this is the left wing (or what passes for left wing in the US) paranoid fantasy counter point. While this film may not hammer home rampant patriotism as much as it's counter point it is still lacking in subtlety and has plenty of clichés as well as ridiculousness along the way. This film may not be as stupid as Olympus Has Fallen but that is scant praise and it is not a huge amount better really.
2/5
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