Antoine Fuque the director does it again - the guy who brought us Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, and Training Day has made another great movie. Butler (300) with no Scottish accent plays the head Secret Service agent for the President's detail until a car accident causes him to lose the first lady (Ashley Judd from High Crimes - which also starred Freeman). Butler is removed from his position after that until the North Koreans stage a take over of the White House and hold the President (Eckhart from Thank You For Smoking) hostage - he is the only hope for rescuing the President and the President's son. McDermott (The Practice) is a retired agent. Freeman (High Crimes) is acting President because the VP is also taken hostage - he's the Speaker of the House. Bassett (This Means War) is the head of the secret service. Leo (Homicide) is the Secretary of Defense. Mitchell (Red Widow) with no Australian accent plays Butler's wife. Hauser (who was in Fuque's Tears of the Sun, too) is an agent as well. The bad guy, who is really from Korean descent, is played by Yune from The Man with the Iron Fists and Ninja Assassin - he is amazing. I only wish the fight seen between him and Butler had lasted longer. Oh, and the fight scenes are good, good, and good. The scenes at the beginning that show the attack on the white House and the Pennsylvania Avenue are really hard to watch - you get a little chocked up. There is quiet a death toll in this, but not too needlessly gory. All in all, I say: what I said before - GO SEE IT NOW
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