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in the nonstop nail-biter “White House Down,” which bears a strong resemblance, plot-wise, to director Antoine Fuqua's “Olympus Has Fallen,” another presidential home invasion thriller released earlier this year.
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Now he's unleashing a gang of rogue ex-soldiers on the hapless abode at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Kennedy through it during a global natural disaster. He leveled it with an alien attack in “Independence Day” (1996), then flattened it again in “2012” (2009) when he ran the aircraft carrier USS John F.
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If he didn't already, director Roland Emmerich surely now holds the record for the number of times a single filmmaker has destroyed America's most famous residence - in a movie.