White House Down (5/10)

Unfortunately for White House Down, Olympus Has Fallen came out first and was a better action movie.

White House Down felt like a watered down version, more predictable and not interesting.

Part of the reason was Channing Tatum. As hot a commodity as he has become, I personally just don't see him yet as a leading man, contrary to what most of others may feel today.

Jamie Foxx on the other hand I felt was trying hard to carry the movie. And had the script had been better, he would have. But the script was thin with loopholes everywhere. Dialogue was boring and some parts of the scenes was just downright silly.

This reminded of the part when the two leads were in the car driving around outside of the White House couldn't get out the gate. None of the hundreds of guns did anything to help when the president was so close to being saved. And then an order was given 5 minutes later for the tank to drive through the gate, where it just stopped and blocked the opening and then got decommissioned by a rocket. The whole sequence was a joke, though the audience were genuinely laughing at the jokes.

The ending too with the big reveal was also silly and illogical. Only the action held up to being satisfactory, and luckily for it, this was an action movie.