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Genres:
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Action /
Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Pete Travis
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Actors:
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Saïd Taghmaoui,
Édgar Ramírez,
Ayelet Zurer,
Eduardo Noriega,
Dennis Quaid,
Matthew Fox,
Forest Whitaker,
Bruce McGill,
Zoe Saldana,
Sigourney Weaver,
William Hurt,
James LeGros,
Richard T. Jones,
Holt McCallany,
Leonardo Nam
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Duration:
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90 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)130
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Plot Summary:
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An strive on the life of the president reveals a much larger dirty work in this thriller starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, and Forest Whitaker. VANTAGE POINT takes the position of picture of five witnesses and shows them all to reveal the truth.
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Vantage Point
Kenneth Turan
Vantage Point is proof that a good pulp idea can overcome a multitude of sins, but not all of them. 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.
The good idea, courtesy of screenwriter Barry L. Levy, is to examine an attempted assassination of the president of the United States from the different viewpoints of eight individuals, each of whom gets 10 minutes or so of screen time devoted to their very own p.o.v.
Though the intriguing device of seeing the same events more than once made at least one preview audience noticeably restive, it is definitely an unusual twist on standard thriller material.
Don't Bother!
Absolutely dreadful. I was conned into this by the trailer which made it look original, interesting, clever, and full of imaginative twists. Unfortunately it's a cheap and unintentionally comical parody of the Hollywood blockbuster with all the usual clichés, car chases and happy endings. All the goodies survive car crashes, being shot, blown up, while the baddies get what's coming to them. By the fifth 'vantage point' (the same scene being repeated again and again and again and again from a different points of view) I was ready to shoot myself. But being boring is its best point, other than that, it panders to American patriotism and arrogance with a lazy and ridiculously unbelievable script and laughable symbolism. Forest Whitaker made a mistake agreeing to this. S...
Pretty good
Some people can not watch a film like this, because it involves seeing some footage over and over again. If however you enjoy 'who done it' films and trying to solve things on your own you might enjoy this. There is of course the element of America saves all and hero's survive anything to pursue the bad guys.
It is original in some aspects and anything a bit different is worth a look. Forest Whitaker is always good. He is a font of emotion.
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