
Meanwhile, Cale and the President are still alive. Speaker Raphelson is then sworn in as the new President, and orders an air strike on the White House. Tyler, who also has control of NORAD, launches a missile at Air Force One, which destroys it and kills the former Vice President. Tyler learns of the attack and warns Stenz and the other terrorists, and they are able to defeat the Delta Force. The Vice President, still on Air Force One, takes the Oath of Office to become the new President, and he immediately orders Delta Force to retake the White House. There is then a shootout that ends with an explosion, presumably killing the President and Cale. The chase on the South Lawn, which is broadcast on worldwide television, ends with the limo crashing into the White House swimming pool. They are in pursuit by the terrorists in the Presidential SUV, which is armed with a minigun. defense systems, but he needs the President alive so he can activate the nuclear arsenal from the “football” that is used to launch nukes.Ĭale and the President are able to avoid Stenz and Walker and eventually make it to the garage, where they attempt to use the Presidential limo to escape. At this time, Walker brings in Skip Tyler (Jimmi Simpson), who is hired to hack the U.S. Cale and the President are able to get on an elevator and get away.

Cale then gets in a shootout with the terrorists, with the President hiding nearby. He shoots at Walker, and the President is able to get away. He doesn’t find her, but he does see Walker and the President. Meanwhile, Cale is able to get a weapon away from one of the terrorists and begins looking for Emily. Walker then tells the President that this is revenge because his son was killed in a black ops mission that he ordered. But as he is about to enter it, Walker kills all of the agents inside the PEOC. The President is taken to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center by retiring Secret Service Detail leader Martin Walker (James Woods). The A/V installers, led by Emil Stenz (Jason Clarke), then produce weapons and start to go through the White House, killing the Secret Service agents and other security. As a result of the explosion, the White House goes on lockdown, which separates Emily from Cale and the rest of the tour group. The VP is also taken to safety inside Air Force One, which then takes off. She does so because he is 2nd in line of Presidential succession, after the Vice President. Finnerty, who was driving by the Capitol when it blew up, goes in, finds the Speaker and gets him to safety at the Pentagon. While she is away, a bomb is detonated at the U.S. Shortly after that, Emily asks to use a restroom. troops from the Middle East.ĭuring the tour, Cale notices several men dressed as A/V installers entering the White House. At the same time, President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) has announced a new proposed peace treaty that would remove all U.S. Cale’s daughter Emily accompanied him to the White House, and after lying to her by saying the interview went well, they decide to take a tour of the White House. Bored with the job, he applies to join the Secret Service, but the interview, conducted by a former college acquaintance Carol Finnerty (Maggie Gyllenhaal), doesn’t go well. He got the assignment because he saved the life of Raphelson’s nephew while they were both in Afghanistan. Army soldier John Cale (Channing Tatum) is a Capitol police officer assigned to protect Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson (Richard Jenkins). The President then orders Cale to be a part of his Secret Service detail.įormer U.S. He is killed by John Cale with the minigun on the Presidential SUV. Agent Walker was involved because his son was killed in a mission the President authorized. After the coup fails, he is arrested for treason.


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There's absolutely no sex or romance, but there's some language, including a single "f-k you," plus "s-t," "bitch," and "a-hole." Ultimately it's a crowd-pleasing action movie with a well-intentioned but slightly contradictory message involving both peace and the importance of armed defense.The Speaker of the House is behind the coup because he is against the President’s new peace treaty. A young girl is frequently in danger and is almost killed on a couple of occasions (which ups the movie's intensity level), and the president seems dead. There are a few hand-to-hand combat scenes and a tense hostage situation in which people (some in high levels of the administration) are executed or wounded.

Like Independence Day, which was also directed by Roland Emmerich, there's a lot of violence, but most of it is on a grand scale - explosions, helicopters/planes crashing, and deaths the audience doesn't see too up close. Parents need to know that White House Down is a patriotic thriller in the vein of Olympus Has Fallen and Independence Day, in which the country is saved by one brave man with a gun - in this case Channing Tatum.
