Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker
An attempted assassination of the president is told from five different points of view.
DVD Release Date: July 1, 2008
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Flixster Reviews (28,754)
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October 19, 2009A full-throttle knockout. It keeps you going every step of the way and it never lets up. A tremendous and spectacular adreniline-fuelled edge of your seat thriller. A smart, gritty, thrilling, compelling, unique and terifficly original film. It's like 24 told in flashbacks and di...( read more)
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October 1, 2009An overused concept quite poorly executed. Guessed 'who dun it' after 10 minutes. Not terrible but not great.
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September 20, 2009'24' meets 'Boomtown' in this movie where the US president is assassinated in Spain during a Summit. The movie is told from five different view points including Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox (secret service), Forest Whitaker (tourist) and Sigourney Weaver (news producer). Excellen...( read more)
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November 4, 2009Liked the idea, but could have been done effectively, without repeating and repeating and then repeating once more!, it`s a rent
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November 3, 2009Here is a thriller that plays with the notion of perspective - what one person sees from their point of view might be quite different from how someone else sees the same event. The President of the United States (William Hurt) arrives in Spain to give a speech as part of a summit...( read more)
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October 29, 2009An interesting thriller which lived up to expectations, and even though it kept skipping back showing each persons story it flowed really well. At the heart its about the attempted assasination of the American president whilst at a summit in Spain.
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October 24, 2009A very fast paced action/thriller. I really enjoyed it! I can see how some may not like the re-winding of the story, but I rather liked it. It allowed me to see and experience how the same situation can be viewed from different Vantage Points, and thus interpreted differently....( read more)
Critic Reviews
March 4, 2008
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
February 22, 2008
Claudia Puig, USA Today
While the title, trailer and commercials imply that we'll be carefully piecing together clues to a complex assassination attempt as seen from several perspectives, the final product turns out to be a ... full review
February 22, 2008
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
All this visual caffeine is in service to a story that isn't worth telling, and that too frequently resorts to the cheap technique of putting an adorable little girl in peril, then cutting away. full review
February 22, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
When everything is finally revealed, the story Vantage Point tells is fairly pedestrian, and nothing special is gained from all the stopping and restarting. full review
February 22, 2008
Kyle Smith, New York Post
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... full review
February 22, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
While it's no classic, Vantage Point is well worth a look. full review
February 22, 2008
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
A nice, straightforward, good old-fashioned geopolitical conspiracy thriller with no pretentions. full review
February 22, 2008
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
The problem with Vantage Point is that the rapid-rewind technique keeps interfering with the thriller's momentum. full review
February 22, 2008
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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... full review
February 22, 2008
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
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 d... full review
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August 27, 2008Great action/thriller, little far fetched of course...lol, Worth the watch, buy, rent or steal this movie. haha. excellent, excellent ;-) Enjoy.
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July 28, 2008i like the fact that 5 different viewpoints were shown...gets you thinking really hard...
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April 10, 2008oh yeah also wanted to point out in this movie, the assassination was captured by 5 point of views.
The assassination of former US president Ronald Regan which was a warning assassination (he wasn't actually killed, just reminded to listen to his handlers and the fact that he was more of an actor who was just supposed to read the line) was also captured by 5 different cameras. -
April 10, 2008
Notice this:
-This movie played in theatres the weekend the DALLAS primaries started heating up...Dallas is an important spot in presidential assasinations
-This movie started on February 22nd in Canada,this goes back to John F Kennedy's assisnation.
-The USA was the only place in the world that this movie opened on February the 20th or you could say 2/20...that's also a double 2 (the 0 is unimportant) and this was ESPECIALLY concocted for America.
-The movie is an action packed thriller from COLUMBIA pictures...this has a link to Columbia university which was attended by Barack Obama (who they'll make the next president of the US) amongst other things.
The fact is that they have put this out in this particular time with certain elements proving one thing...it was preconceived or forethought...a lot of planning went into this. Maybe you've noticed this for a while now, but what is happening with the globe is being reflected in the films made for 'entertainment'. -
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March 25, 2008High impact movie! keeps u in ur seat! lol very intense, i liked it dispite the the reviews read- they are wrong!! it's a very good movie. It was my brother's movie for his 15th birthday present and im glad i went with him and a few of my friends joined us and i'm glad they did! we had a great day!
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