Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker

An attempted assassination of the president is told from five different points of view.

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151 critics

PG-13, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Pete Travis

Release Date: February 20, 2008

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DVD Release Date: July 1, 2008

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  • October 19, 2009
    A 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)fferent points of view. Cleverly constructed, well-crafted and superbly shot. 100% pure entertainment with great action sequences and dramatic intensity. Heart-pounding and pulse-pounding throughout. Gripping suspense, rip-roaring tension and non-stop action fuell this sensational nail-bitter. An outstanding and brilliant all-star cast that just shine with perfection. Dennis Quaid is riveting. Matthew Foxx is teriffic. Forest Whitaker is excellent. William Hurt is brilliant. It works well in it's time frame and makes the story and it's characters role perfectly. An excellent movie. It's relentless, shocking, spellbinding and unforgettable. It will knock you out and take your breath away. It's endlessly satisfying, sensational, razor-sharp and mind-blowing.
  • October 8, 2009
    nice idea, didn't quite work
  • October 1, 2009
    An overused concept quite poorly executed. Guessed 'who dun it' after 10 minutes. Not terrible but not great.
  • 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)t performances. Good to see familar faces - Dennis, Sigourney and Forest. Matthew Fox is hot! Fast paced and full of twists. I loved the car chase - it's brilliant.
  • August 25, 2009
    ITs very good for what it is and it does it nicely
  • November 20, 2009
    A very entertaining and intense movie that had me on the edge of my seat through out most of the movie. Even though this was Dennis Quaid's movie, Forest Whitaker is the one who steals the show with his character. Very well acted with another layer revealed Roshomon style from di...( read more)fferent view points, the movie is fairly predictable and the constant rewinding is rather annoying. But the fast paced nature of this film and a car chase scene that was the best since Ronin, this is a fun movie that doesn't let up.
  • November 18, 2009
    A ridiculous plot and horrible acting from pretty much everyone. It seems like they were trying to go for an edgy crime thriller, but just resulted in an incomprehensible plot that I didn't even care about in the first place.
  • November 17, 2009
    started very well, watching same scene from diferents views is good thing movie, and i liked how was all done .... but like always thr most be some screw up--- first bodyguard is fuckin imposible to stop, liek hes some fuckin terminator.. and then us president somehwo manage to s...( read more)tay live big fuckin crash in medical car, and before that he smacked one of kidnapers in and somehow caused accident ... come in that time monkey bush was president and what someone think could do that, he heee well i hate when americans made movie about US president who can't be killed by anything damn
    not recommendet if u r not hard core action fan, but must say once again it was nice start till end and car chase what ruined average movie
  • November 16, 2009
    Seen the start... got sliiightly bored "/
  • November 14, 2009
    this movie is very simple but is made so awesome. THe beginning is EPIC the follow-through is beast and the ending is great

Critic Reviews


March 4, 2008
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

A monument to cinematic suckiness. full review

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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Comments


  • sugi8gv
    January 25, 2009
    Great film with deeply think... Awesome
  • cutiesey
    December 22, 2008
    nice movie u better watch this movie lol
  • perfectgentlemn
    August 27, 2008
    Great action/thriller, little far fetched of course...lol, Worth the watch, buy, rent or steal this movie. haha. excellent, excellent ;-) Enjoy.
  • rbevanx
    August 6, 2008
    what a load of shite. I missed Hollyoaks for this.
  • aiam1122
    July 28, 2008
    i like the fact that 5 different viewpoints were shown...gets you thinking really hard...
  • pavacri23
    May 27, 2008
    this something you haven't seen yet so check it when you have time
  • Vintervila
    April 10, 2008
    oh 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.
  • Vintervila
    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'.
  • unknownyousef
    March 29, 2008
    it have the flag of jordan
  • luckyteddy2006
    March 25, 2008
    High 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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