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

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 11, 2024

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 2, 2022

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

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 21, 2022

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

| May 3, 2021

Restraint has never been one of director Emmerich's strengths, and here such indiscretion is both abundantly clear and a bane to the believability of an outlandish premise.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2020

This is the third time that Emmerich has managed to assault the White House, which makes one wonder whether or not Emmerich has unresolved political feelings.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

Big, loud, heroic, and fun, "White House Down," is also bloated, ridiculously violent, and kind of dumb.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 8, 2020

The nicest thing that can be said about director Roland Emmerich's White House Down is that it is the second best Die Hard rip-off set in the Presidential estate released in the last four months.

| Original Score: D- | Aug 27, 2019

Even critics succumb to the odd guilty pleasure, and for me this movie, which doesn't bear thinking about, crosses over into the so-bad-it's-good department.

| Aug 6, 2019

An hour and a half of that would have been better than its clocked 131 minutes, but Channing Tatum enthusiastically and wholeheartedly takes on his role, and that kind of passion makes up for boatloads of silliness.

| Jul 30, 2019

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 19, 2019

While the film's numerous background characters have undoubtedly been lifted from the Hollywood stockpile, Emmerich deserves credit for imbuing many of them with a dash of personality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 2, 2019

White House Down has everything it should: solid story structure, good execution and plenty of explosions and ass-kicking.

| Original Score: B | Jan 26, 2019

Packed with explosive action and entertaining buddy rapport, White House Down is a popcorn actioner with a dash of patriotism.

| Jan 26, 2019

White House Down is exactly the type of mindless amusement for which the beginning of summer vacation calls.

| Nov 1, 2018

If you like cheesy 90's action movies like The Rock or Con Air, this is a movie you really need to go see with a bunch of mildly inebriated friends and just have some fun.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Nov 1, 2018

It would be impossible to detail in this space all the ways Roland Emmerich's latest action/adventure, White House Down, violates the bounds of good (or even moderate) taste.

| Apr 17, 2018

This is the dumbest, gruntiest, schlockiest film ever to be cut and pasted off the internet

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 6, 2018

Ultimately, I was bored by White House Down, which is pretty much inexcusable given the level of sublime idiocy on display.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 8, 2016

The script reads as if it was written by a college freshman who just got his first taste of Zinn and Chomsky.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2016