Idk why people are calling this movie good. If I were to rate it solely for the action scenes with complete disregard for intelligent tactics/calls I expected from the characters, then yes, this is a good action movie. However, I can't miss the number of stupid decisions made by some of the characters. And hey, we all know this is just a movie, right? Does that mean we should throw all sense of realism under the bus? No.
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Here are SOME of those stupid decisions and super unrealistic scenes. They're quite laughable, really:
- The WH is under attack, yet it took freakin' long for the army to respond. Kang commented about it and even he finds it ridiculous!
- Mike put Connor in an air vent to let the kid out to safety through it. Surely Mike's not dumb enough to not put back the cover so the bad guys won't think of checking out that vent, right? Haha guess again ;)
- Oh, there's this thing called Cerberus that could self-destruct and bring nuclear hell to the USA and kill millions of Americans? Why don't we (three people who know one code each, needed to activate this weapon) just give all three codes to this terrorist, because God forbid he kills us or the president! None of these characters thought, "Oh. Will they really kill me? If they do, they won't get the code that only 'I' know about."
2/5 stars