How would you've handled the White house invasion?

I'd get John, Jack, or Jason.

As in McClane, Bauer, or Bourne.

As great as thst sounds, you can't just charge in John Wayne style. The terrorists would've killed all the hostages for one. Secondly, they had explosives so they probably woulda blown up all the good guys coming in & even the White House too. In other words, they had us by the balls. But luckily, we had agent Mike Banning to save the day.

Have the agents stay inside, in cover and out of range of the machineguns. Everyone hunkers down with a long gun and 10 mags at a minimum. Let the Army take care of the invaders on the front lawn.

The thing is, the first guy should have never given up his code.

What leverage are they going to use... kill the other two people with the codes that they need?

Anyway, I was confused as to why they didn't storm once the helicopter was blown up. At that moment, they assumed the President was on boad and dead. No reason not to storm on in.

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Hmm, to begin with I'd start with a better screening of the South Korean President's entourage.

Have the secret service get their automatic rifles instead of running into a field of fire with pistols would be my first choice.
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First situation is as follows, the president and key staff is down in the bunker. The attackers have the white house. Solution: Fuel Air Bomb. Or something similar. Anything that doesnt make crater big enough to threaten the bunker really. Would have taken out most of the attackers, all the security personal was presumed death anyway and confirmed death later by the lone hero, at that point he could have gotten the kid and get out with it, at which point it's pretty much confirmed that the president is safe in the bunker and the white house only has baddies in it so just flatten it. With some luck that would have cut off the terrorists communication lines too, ending his plan right there and then.

Second situation, second code is entered, Bunker Buster. This is a matter of national security. Need of the many outweigh the needs of the few and all that. The greater good. For the glory of the Sontaran empire. Personally I think the nukes shouldnt go off with the selfdestruct, but if they really did or there was a 5% chance, bunker buster it is.

What happened with no negotiating with terrorists? Everyone still acting like the hostage is the president. He's not, at that moment Morgan Freeman is. Traditionally half the country hates the president, whichever party he's from. He's a man. He's not god. In fact in the movie he's shown as immoral by buying the election, which never comes up again.

There is some risk of a civil war erupting over the president getting exploded by the US army but that's still a better option then taking the chance of all the nukes going off. They're quite slow on catching on to his plan and completely forget about the plan at the end, the whole helicopter blow up thing was a pointless waste of soldiers for the terrorists. Also when you start a timer, might want to look into disabling the things that can stop the timer. Like destroying what's apparently the only keyboard that can enter the code to stop it. Instead of saving the president and risking ti all, he could have waited and disabled the sequence and then go save the president. If only the other people had mentioned to him over his earpiece that the sequence had started. I guess that wasnt relevant information for the only person in range that could stop it. Or did he lose the earpiece at some point? I'd have to rewatch it and check.

Risking the entire world just so one guy can try some heroics is cute, but the movie skips over the fact that a lot of the nukes that the USA has arent in the USA. So either the self destruct doesnt work on all all nukes, which would still leave the USA with plenty of nuclear threat or it's a world ender. Heck, even just the nukes that are in the USA all going of at the same time would be a world ender. You can rebuild the white house, you can elect a new president.

This scheme would never work in my country (Belgium). You'd be lucky if out of 10 people half can name the position that holds the highest authority and perhaps two people who know what party the current one is from. Then again, police incompetence is a thing too and they'll probably overreact and do a Waco. But the people wouldnt care as much. Heck at least one party would use it as the most opportune moment to take control and force their agenda through, splitting the country into smaller countries. Good luck getting demands done by Belgium if it doesnt exist anymore and the smaller parts dont give a rats ass about the guys you're holding.