Where does one begin with this? First, the highly improbable way that the bad guys gain access / take over. While I admit it was a nice detail of using fallen agents guns to equip your people, plus the 6+ armories the Whitehouse apparently has, the actual process is completely nonsensical. Using a bomb at the Capitol to create a distraction? What ever became of that? Nobody knows.
Then comes the typical "use facial recognition" scene to figure out the backstories of the bad guys. Surprise, surprise. They're right wing. Headed by literal right wing supporter James Woods. Included in the hostages are your usual civilians, but also a Rush Limbaugh-esque pundit. Of course he's depicted as emotional and cowardly. Even when he steps up to defend a young girl, he gets shot in the leg and immediately gives up the fight and goes back to sobbing on the floor.
In one of the most convoluted and glossed over parts of the movie, NORAD is hacked and a missile is launched at the plane carrying the vice president and the rest of the cabinet. This puts Richard Jenkins' character as the next in the line of succession. He immediately sends James Woods the codes for the nuclear football that was conveniently just laying around the Whitehouse. The whole motive for all of this nonsense? Keep the war raging in the Middle East so the "military industrial complex" continues to make money. Mind you, this is one of the biggest claims of the left, and is largely unfounded because we have plenty of countries to buy our weapons without having to go to war.
I'll give in, I had a good time watching it. Mostly because of the absurdity of it all, but at the same time the blatant politics of the whole thing (including their in-movie president being a direct copy of "President Unity" Obama) had my eyes rolling.
Then comes the typical "use facial recognition" scene to figure out the backstories of the bad guys. Surprise, surprise. They're right wing. Headed by literal right wing supporter James Woods. Included in the hostages are your usual civilians, but also a Rush Limbaugh-esque pundit. Of course he's depicted as emotional and cowardly. Even when he steps up to defend a young girl, he gets shot in the leg and immediately gives up the fight and goes back to sobbing on the floor.
In one of the most convoluted and glossed over parts of the movie, NORAD is hacked and a missile is launched at the plane carrying the vice president and the rest of the cabinet. This puts Richard Jenkins' character as the next in the line of succession. He immediately sends James Woods the codes for the nuclear football that was conveniently just laying around the Whitehouse. The whole motive for all of this nonsense? Keep the war raging in the Middle East so the "military industrial complex" continues to make money. Mind you, this is one of the biggest claims of the left, and is largely unfounded because we have plenty of countries to buy our weapons without having to go to war.
I'll give in, I had a good time watching it. Mostly because of the absurdity of it all, but at the same time the blatant politics of the whole thing (including their in-movie president being a direct copy of "President Unity" Obama) had my eyes rolling.