![]() Joe: Retaliation – which despite abysmal reviews has earned tens of millions in ticket sales – also has bad guys seize the White House. ![]() That follows on from the current box-office hit Olympus Has Fallen, where – in a spookily current plot twist – North Korean terrorists attack the White House and pretty much destroy it. A trailer for the coming blockbuster White House Down features dramatic scenes of the entire Capitol building exploding, Air Force One being shot out of the sky by a rocket, and then – almost as an afterthought – a shot of the White House bursting into rubble and flames. None of the destruction is subtle, or limited to the White House. ![]() ![]() Twelve years after the 11 September terrorist attacks, and long after audiences shed a similar reticence about seeing New York being destroyed, at least three major films will now feature America's most famous address being attacked, shot up, set on fire or taken over by terrorists. It has been a long time coming but American moviegoers are now ready to watch the White House being blown up again.
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