I forgot to write about this, four years ago! Lots of action as a veteran, applying for a secret service job, steps in to protect his daughter and the president from a hostage situation. I imagine we liked it just fine. It stars Channing Tatum and Joey King (last blogged for Hail, Caesar! and Going in Style respectively) as the veteran and his daughter, Jamie Foxx (most recently in Baby Driver) as the president, and Maggie Gyllenhaal (last in these pages for Hysteria) as the secret service HR person, among many.
Director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day (1996), Godzilla (1998), The Patriot (2000), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), and 2012) is no stranger to big budget action movies and the long trailer is pretty fun. He works from a script by James Vanderbilt (later wrote and directed Truth and is part of the Vanderbilt family, once the richest in America, according to wikipedia).
Here's a track by composers Thomas Wander & Harald Kloser (they scored 2012). Rotten Tomatoes' critics averaged only 50% and its audiences didn't like it much better, coming in at 62.
Since I'm coming close to 1000 movies on the blog I want my count to be accurate when I hit that milestone. There's one more old one and one new one in draft mode. Coming soon.
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