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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
Chugging forward and chundering back, the movie keeps promising to whip up something hellishly complicated, but what keeps the movie going for an hour and a half is not a complicated plot but a stingy way of dribbling out information.
While it's no classic, Vantage Point is well worth a look.
Vantage Point is the highlights reel of an action movie too average to watch in any other form.
Initially intriguing and energetic, this film ends up demonstrating that a good script needs to be more than a clever concept and fine direction must be more than moving things fast.
Top CriticIncreasingly complex -- and preposterous.
Hey, it’s February, a month when moviegoers have to be thankful for anything diverting.
The first 15 minutes of Vantage Point are the worst. Then you only have to sit through them seven more times.
A nice, straightforward, good old-fashioned geopolitical conspiracy thriller with no pretentions.
The problem with Vantage Point is that the rapid-rewind technique keeps interfering with the thriller's momentum.
You can watch a Bugs Bunny cartoon from 10 different angles, and it's still a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Vantage Point is a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
This action/suspense-thriller is hopelessly convoluted and contrived. The filmmakers are clearly trying to duplicate the style and feel vastly superior television series 24.
Vantage Point makes nice use of the heft of Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver in a story in which an assassination followed by an explosion gets revisited from eight points of view.
If you're up for good nihilist entertainment, look no further.
Reduces global terrorism to a Rubik's Cube suitable for an evening's entertainment. If that doesn't make you vaguely ill, by all means take this thriller for the shallow, gimmicky "ride" it aspires to be.
An overly gimmicky and fatally repetitive terrorist thriller that quickly wears out its welcome.
If you can work your way past Vantage Point's goofy casting that places a bland, blank-eyed Hurt in the White House, then I suppose you can manage to forgive this Rashomon rip-off's other glaring idiosyncrasies, of which there are many.
What is the real crime? Why, beating the audience about the ears, eyes and brain with essentially the same sequence of events from eight characters' points of view, none of which adds much more than deafening hysteria and identically dreadful music.
The filmmakers hook us and reel us in during 90 breathless minutes.
Not much about the plot can be revealed without giving away the various surprises and twists [which]are the only reason to sit through the film.
The exhilarating car chase that closes the movie is alone worth the price of admission...
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