Thursday, July 3, 2008
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.
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I liked this movie a little better than you did. I wished they had changed how they went to each different flash back and I think it would have made it better.
Some of the plot perspectives could have used less time dedicated to them during the film as the extra time didn't really add anything to the film.
For me the only let down of significance was ending. I felt the movie held its own but the ending seemed like a bit of a let down.
Overall I gave it 2 stars though.
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