Arts & Entertainment

MOVIE REVIEWS: 'White House Down' is Shameless Fun

In "White House Down," Channing Tatum plays a wannabe Secret Service agent who must save the president (Jamie Foxx).

"White House Down" is rated PG-13 and runs 2 hours and 17 minutes. Click here for movie times in and around Cumming.

Here's what the critics are saying:

"White House Down" is a hoot and a half, a shameless popcorn entertainment that is preposterous and diverting in just about equal measure. — Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

With its well-choreographed mayhem, Down is an over-the top, Die Hard-style thriller that will make pulses race more than the recent, similarly themed Olympus Has Fallen. While director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) piles on outlandish scenarios, the chemistry of the lead actors mitigates the contrived setup and numbing explosions. — Claudia Puig, USA Today

This welcome throwback to an earlier, more generously entertaining era of summer blockbusters delivers a wide array of close-quarters combat and large-scale destruction, all grounded in an immensely appealing star turn by Channing Tatum and ace support from imperiled POTUS Jamie Foxx. — Scott Foundas, Variety

Between all the stuff that goes boom, stars Jamie Foxx and Channing Tatum manage to develop genuine comic chemistry as two men thrown into an apocalyptic cataclysm when the U.S. government suffers a viciously violent coup. — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

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