Vantage Point takes a pretty high concept, dribbles a bunch of red herrings all over it, and makes things go boom, reaping better yields than the average TV show.
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03/29/08
Vantage Point (2008)
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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:53
Rotten:98
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Vantage Point has an interesting premise that is completely undermined by fractured storytelling and wooden performances.
Theatrical Release:07-03-2008
Synopsis: A presidential assassination attempt is told from multiple points of view in Pete Travis's directorial debut, VANTAGE POINT. U.S. president Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain (though much... [More]
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Pete Travis
Reviews for Vantage Point
When you wrap a movie around a gimmick, the wrapping better be taut and engaging or the gimmick falls flat.
03/27/08
As Vantage Point becomes increasingly busy with personal betrayals and redemptions, the ostensible politics, reductive to begin with, fall by the wayside.
03/21/08
Vantage Point is a tense and imaginative thriller that reels you in the longer it goes along, only to lose focus in the last 15 minutes. This final reel misstep is a shame, but it’s not enough to ruin all the good work that’s come before it.
03/20/08
With a little more work this could have been a first-rate thriller along the lines of the Bourne films, because the concept is intriguing and our interest is held for a significant part of the film.
03/19/08
There's roughly 20 minutes of story here, and no matter how many times they stop and start over again from an even more preposterous angle, it's still going to play out like a lousy episode of 24.
03/17/08
If you're watching for perfectly matched action you're not into the mystery and you probably aren't going to be very sympathetic to the effort involved.
03/17/08
Writer Barry Levy has added some snap, crackle and pop to what would otherwise be a routine action film had it been presented in chronological order.
03/16/08
A curta duração e o ritmo constantemente frenético do filme mantêm o espectador atento e interessado, mesmo que o objeto de tanta atenção não faça muito sentido em retrospecto.
03/15/08
This pseudo-political action thriller is rather half baked editorially but otherwise overcooked.
03/06/08
Vantage Point prefers to stick with the familiar, so that it ends up, bizarrely enough, affirming rather than challenging the viewer's prejudices.
03/05/08
A monument to cinematic suckiness.
03/04/08
a ripping good yarn
03/02/08
A decent thriller that takes time to get started
03/01/08
Vantage Point is a smart film with a complex plot and lots of action. That's not a typical combination
03/01/08
I might almost sit through the crappy storytelling one more time just to see the car chases. These are the kind car chases that Stuntman Mike from Death Proof might be able to appreciate
03/01/08
The Bourne films have fundamentally altered the rules... Every action thriller from here on out must adapt or risk coming across like some middling, antiquated dinosaur.
02/28/08
Decent actors wasted; impossible, idiotic plot twists; an unimaginative shooting style; an okay but unspectacular bit of action. Yep, it's a February movie all right.
02/27/08
The more they replay the story, the more you realize that there really wasn't all that much to see in the first place.
02/27/08
Basically, Vantage Point is a don't-ask-and-we-won't-tell movie. We are just supposed to sit back and ride along without questioning where we are being driven.
02/27/08
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