White House Down

I jumped into this garbage after seeing a higher than expected 4 stars on Netflix & 6.5 on IMDB. This follows the story of Gerard Butler's character on his journey from being on the President's security detail to working at the Treasury, to becoming Rambo and America's greatest hero. I'm going to, rather than do a review, tell you where this movie pissed me off and got me to not care. In the first 10 minutes the President's motorcade is driving too fast on a cliff in Winter and the First Lady dies when Gerard Butler saves the President, but not the First Lady. Apparently this makes the President no longer his buddy, so he is put in a different department doing security on the Library, Treasury, or something like that. Where I pretty much lost all interest and started making fun of the movie and cursing at it is when the attack on the White House starts. The Korean's some how have an American plane equipped with video game gatling guns that are independent and utterly ridiculous. The plane SHOOTS DOWN two jets escorting it with the video game machine guns, then strafes the White House for awhile firing bullets into everyone and everything. It avoids some anti-aircraft fire by deploying more chaffe than 20 planes have. After that bullshit we have 30 Koreans take over the White House, which I could write a paper on how ridiculous it was. The military takes forever to get to THE WHITE HOUSE mind you, and is completely useless. From there Butler takes out basically all the Koreans himself in a preposterous hour of insanity and stupidity. I didn't understand how anyone could like this movie, but I have a low tolerance for ridiculousness in action movies and this hit the limit quickly. To enjoy the movie, ignorance must truly be bliss. Bottom Line: 3.9 out of 10. Even the CGI is crap. This really has few redeeming qualities other than laughing at a lot of the ridiculousness.