Factual error: During the morning scene where snipers on top of the White House investigate a window curtain, they use a thermal imaging sight. They then see the heat signature of a couple through the window, but a thermal sight cannot detect a heat signature when it's behind glass. (00:03:45)
White House Down (2013)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Channing Tatum, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, Richard Jenkins, Maggie Gyllenhaal
At the end of the film Raphelson and Finnerty fly to the White House on Marine One, and they meet up with Cale. Cale proceeds to tell Raphelson that President Sawyer is dead, so Raphelson orders troops back into the Demilitarized zone, which is a violation of the peace treaty. Raphelson confronted over the fact that it was him who gave Walker the launch codes and tried to kill the President and the air strike would have destroyed all the evidence that proved he was involved in the attack. President Sawyer then emerges from the rubble and orders Raphelson arrested for treason for the attempted coup.
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Walker: You just killed the Secretary of Defense.
Stenz: Well, he wasn't doing a very good job.
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Question: I know little of complicated politics so despite seeing it as a plot hole, I'm putting it in as a question. As Walker gives the missiles targets, there is talk of starting World War III if they are allowed to hit. The attack on the White House would be world wide news, on every major channel. Wouldn't these countries know it wasn't America who bombed them but was the work of terrorists?
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Answer: Knowing is not believing. They might know, but they wouldn't necessarily trust the media. After all it could have been a grand conspiracy to cover up the actual truth from the people.
Alan Keddie
I highly doubt world war 3 would start before these countries did their homework though. It wouldn't take long for them to suss out it was actually terrorists who detonated the bombs and not America.
The_Iceman