Parental Guidance: White House Down and A Band Called Death

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Rating: PG-13, for prolonged sequences of action and violence including intense gunfire and explosions, some language and a brief sexual image.

Yet another White-House-under-siege movie? So soon? Just a few months after the release of Olympus Has Fallen, our nation's capital once again is being attacked on screen. The difference is, that film was rated R, so you saw the physical consequence of massive gun battles. The PG-13 White House Down has the kind of insane violence you'd expect from director Roland Emmerich -- both up-close-and-personal shootings in close quarters and barrages of automatic gunfire from the skies -- but with barely any blood. It's just as numbing but not nearly so gruesome. More troubling to me, as a mom, was watching Joey King, as Channing Tatum's 11-year-old daughter, being used as a pawn -- seeing her roughed up by bad guys, including having a gun placed to her head several times. She's a tough girl capable of standing up for herself, but the extent to which the villains abuse her as a source of audience thrills seemed gratuitous and made me uneasy. Whether or not these images disturb older kids, they'll likely bother their parents. Also: Jamie Foxx, as the Obamaesque president, drops the one F-bomb you get with a PG-13 rating.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1927761/news/1927761/

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