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[quote name="fabio"]Not only is it a ripoff of the Die Hard formula, but it rips off specific scenes and imagery, sometimes for no real reason other than because it has to rip off every single thing from Die Hard. It's almost Bizarro Die Hard because even though it rips everything off, it takes all the reasons those things worked in Die Hard and does the exact opposite. Every man who doesn't even want to be there? Top super agent who wants to be there. Hero estranged from his wife, left up in the air if the marriage will work? The president now plays the wife, except they throw in an estranged wife too who plays absolutely no part in the story. It's just there because they had to rip it off from Die Hard. Highly organized group of thieves overwhelming security and police who weren't expecting it? Ridiculous magical horde of special operatives overwhelming secret service and military who knew what to expect. Group of thieves masquerading as terrorists, in it just for the money? Group of terrorists masquerading as terrorists who masquerade as independent mercenaries but nope they're really just terrorists. Cynicism to any political motive? North Korea hates our freedoms. Terrorists fake their deaths in an explosion to cover their escape? Yes, but it's completely fucking pointless because they leave behind obvious footprints that would have been quickly discovered. Again, it's only in there because they had to rip off everything from Die Hard. Exploding getaway chopper hurls hero from huge height? The White House is only like 2 or 3 stories, they're not seriously going to try...nope, there it is. Executing people to get a code, subverting what we expected from both the terrorists and hostage? No subversion at all. President orders 2 other people to give up their 3 part codes to avoid execution because, "They'll never get my code," he says. Well you just showed you'll give up codes to save the lives of others, why wouldn't they just threaten those people again to get the President to spill his code? The entire time, the President is in plain site of the screen clearly showing the hacking progress of his own code. Badly wounded hero, low on resources, limps in to improvise a desperate rescue in the final face off? Unharmed hero shoots the final half dozen bad guys and defeats main villain in protracted kung fu duel. The bad guys' secret agenda of money? The bad guys' secret agenda of self-destructing all nukes in their silos which will "kill tens of millions" and "turn the country into a cold wasteland". In a moment of borderline self-parody, a characters asks, "how many nukes?" <b>"ALL OF THEM!"</b> Police front entrance fails because they weren't expecting security gates, automatic weapons, or military grade weapons that could take out an armored vehicle? Military helicopter roof landing fails to military grade weapons the terrorists used to take the White House in the first place. Why helicopters and not the thousands of troops surrounding the White House? Well because the front door was wide open with no guards... Ratchet up the action as the movie goes on? The movie blows its wad in the first 20 minutes. The takeover of the White House could have been awesome if it wasn't for the constant swelling emotional music and slo mo panning secret service deaths (sped up every time a North Korean gets shot), discarded American flag, and Washington Monument collapsing just in case you didn't get the 9/11 allusion. I wouldn't have been surprised in the slightest if the terrorists had actually pissed on the stars and stripes. Later on, someone starts shouting the pledge of allegiance before execution. The Andy Richter clone may be the most out of place, worst acted minor character in a movie ever. Fuck this movie. The robotic xeroxing of Die Hard injected with ridiculous nationalism that makes Air Force One seem smart and restrained. Jesus Christ even Red Dawn was less cartoony than this.[/quote]