Vantage Point
he attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from eight witnesses with eight different points of view. But just when you think you know the answer, the shattering final truth is revealed.
1 August 1973, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
7 October 1981, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
30 January 1978, Petoskey, Michigan, USA
November1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina
February 22, 2008
When everything is finally revealed, the story Vantage Point tells is fairly pedestrian, and nothing special is gained from all the stopping and restarting.
March 07, 2008
Although mounted with no little efficiency by director Pete Travis (who previously made the TV drama-doc 'Omagh'), the narrative enterprise actually hides a one-dimensional world view, with civilian casualties mere background set dressing.
July 23, 2008
Although based around a familiar, Rashomon-style concept, Vantage Point ratchets up its intensity so effectively that the lack of originality hardly matters.
February 22, 2008
Vantage Point is a thriller that has quite a lot on its mind. The very structure of the movie challenges the audience's patience, if not its wit.
July 22, 2008
If you are looking for mindless action, it's not bad. But since this is trying to be something more than that, I can't quite recommend it.
February 02, 2009
Vantage Point is a patented representative of this year's early mediocrity. Vantage Point is trailer trash.
July 19, 2008
The whodunit-with-terrorist-undertones doesn't test, shock or surprise the audience in any unique way.
February 22, 2008
All this visual caffeine is in service to a story that isn't worth telling, and that too frequently resorts to the cheap technique of putting an adorable little girl in peril, then cutting away.
August 24, 2008
For movies like Vantage Point, life is too short.
February 22, 2008
While the title, trailer and commercials imply that we'll be carefully piecing together clues to a complex assassination attempt as seen from several perspectives, the final product turns out to be a tepid thriller that promises more than it delivers.
