Vantage Point (2008)

Vantage Point takes an assassination attempt on the American President and shows us the related events from the perspectives of various participants and witnesses. Thusly we see a lot of the same events repeated from different angles as the film routinely flashes us back after each major (if any event in the film can be called major) revelation, this all becomes kind of frustrating. This 'hook' is basically just a device used to stretch the rather thin plot and give us some supposed character sketches, however none of these are either original or all that interesting. Denis Quaid gets to have one pretty good car chase but that’s really about all this movie has to offer. On par with last years The Sentinel. 1 ½ out of 5.