Cale kills a mercenary, takes his gun and radio, and rescues the President. Once they gain access, Walker kills his detail, revealing himself to be the real leader who wants vengeance against President Sawyer after a botched black ops mission resulted in the death of his son. Retiring Head of the Presidential Detail Martin Walker ( James Woods) escorts the President and his detail to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. Cale manages to escape to go find his daughter separated from him during the tour. At the same time, mercenaries led by Emil Stenz ( Jason Clarke), having infiltrated the White House by disguising themselves as audio-visual repairmen, quickly overwhelm the Secret Service, take the tour group hostage and seizes the White House. Finnerty is sent to escort the Speaker to an underground command center in the Pentagon, while Vice President of the United States Alvin Hammond ( Michael Murphy) is taken aboard Air Force One. In the meantime, disguised as a janitor, a man detonates a bomb at the center of the US Capitol building, causing the White House to be on lockdown. However, his interviewer, Secret Service officer Carol Finnerty ( Maggie Gyllenhaal), a former college acquaintance of his, believes him to be unqualified due to his lack of respect towards authority, and subsequently deems him ineligible for the job. Raphelson does not support the President's peace plans for the Middle East.Ĭale hopes to impress his politically obsessed daughter Emily ( Joey King) by getting a job interview for the Secret Service Presidential Detail, while also getting tickets for the two of them to tour the White House. Divorced US Capitol Police officer John Cale ( Channing Tatum) is currently assigned to Speaker of the House Eli Raphelson ( Richard Jenkins) after saving his nephew's life during a tour in Afghanistan. It opens to an explosion at Capitol building, killing the president and everyone in succession on The State of The Union, it leaves the secretary of Housing and Urban Development as the designated survivor who is sworn in as the new president.President of the United States James Sawyer ( Jamie Foxx) generates controversy over a proposed peace treaty between the allied nations to remove military forces from the Middle East.
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Straight from its pilot episode, this ABC’s TV drama was later converted to a Netflix series with Season 3 directly aired on the digital giant. Quite explosive: Designated Survivor (web series)
The look he gives to the White House is another trait to discuss. In it, the human race is being run by anti-intellectuals, including the US president who was once a porn star. Starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal and others, it shows a massive terrorist attack on the White House.Īnti-intellectual stance: Idiocracy (2006)Ī science-fiction comedy by Mike Judge shows a world that woke up 500 years post a hibernation experiment. In director Roland Emmerich’s world from Olympus Has Fallen, the Oval House barely got time to rebuild from the Olympus Has Fallen when director Roland Emmerich’s apocalyptic devastation befell on it again in this one. There is an doppelganger in the White House and ‘the greatest American Heroes’ are being framed as traitor. Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson and Bruce Willis are not only fighting their enemy Cobra but also a threat from within. Joe toy, comic and media franchise and is second in the G.I. Joe Retaliation is based on Hasbro’s G.I.
Joe: Retaliation (2013)Ī military science-fiction film directed by Jon M Chu, G.I. It is the third installment in Has Fallen series. He evades the FBI and his own agency to locate the real threat that’s lurking on the White House and prove his innocence.
In this action-thriller film directed by Ric Roman Waugh, we see Gerard Butler playing the Secret Service agent Mike Banning, who is framed for the failed assassination attempt of US President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman). Idiocracyįallen from grace!: Angel Has Fallen (2019)
Here are some of those titles that will intrigue you as they show apocalyptic devastation of the president’s mansion or its residents. Though not on Capitol Hill, we have seen similar scenarios being recreated in cinema where the White House has come under attack. Five died and several got injured at the heart of American democracy in what is being termed as one of the worst security breaches in the US history. The Capitol Hill saw a terrible attack as a pro-Trump mob clashed with Capitol police during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 US presidential election results.