Vantage Point (Single-Disc Edition)
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Actor: Bruce McGill, Dennis Quaid, Edgar Ramirez, Forest Whitaker, Matthew FoxDirector: Pete Travis
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); Cantonese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-01
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Vantage Point (Single-Disc Edition)
Movie Review: Requires a huge leap of faith
Summary: 2 Stars
This movie started out pretty interesting, but it degenerates into utter nonsense. I like to suspend logic and enjoy a movie, but when it gets to the silly level, I lose interest. There are a few things here that just kill this movie.
1. The movie portrays the Secret Service as a bunch of poorly trained buffoons. I know for a fact that this is nonsense. These guys are highly trained specialists. A lot of them are ex-military. There is no way that one guy could take out over a dozen of them like portrayed in the film. No way.
2. The worlds dumbest kid stops dead in front of a speeding ambulance and the terrorist driver swerves out of the way to avoid killing her. Since when do terrorists worry about killing kids?
3. One of the terrorists has a cell phone with technology from the 31st century. He can detonate bombs, activate machine guns, and shave in the morning with this thing. The only thing missing from it was a transporter from Star Trek.
4. If kidnapping the President of the United States was that easy, G.W. Bush would have been taken out 6 years ago. Utter nonsense.
5. The longest car chase since Gone in 60 Seconds, was just a boring waste of time.
I just could not get past these plot failures enough to enjoy the movie. To me, it was about as realistic as Pirates of the Carribean.
Summary of Vantage Point (Single-Disc Edition)
As the president arrives in salamanca, gunshots ring out. An american tourist has captured footage of te would-be assassin on videotape, & now, as the stories of the other four witnesses unfold, each piece of the puzzle falls into place. Only when all the stories are told will the shocking truth finally emerge.Vantage Point, which aspires to be a cunningly twisted thriller, comes equipped with plenty of hurtling action, handheld camerawork, what-was-that? editing, and a plot that has multiple, contradictory agendas writhing like a nest of snakes. It's all set a-boil within a few blocks of a town square in Spain where a U.S. President is targeted for assassination. Although the movie lasts 90 minutes, the events it depicts are mostly over with in a quarter-hour or so--but seen, rewound, and reseen from half a dozen different (you guessed it) vantage points. The first line in the credits reads "Original Film," apparently the name of the production company. "Gimmick Movie" would be more accurate; the opening reel, effectively jolting, affords an initial overview of the events through the eyes, lenses, monitors, and dueling sensibilities of a TV news producer (Sigourney Weaver), her activist-minded reporter (Zoe Saldana) and crew. Everybody's in Salamanca (actually, Mexico City) for the start of an international conference to reaffirm Arab-Western commitment to the fight against terrorism. Terrorism, of course, sees this as an ideal moment to break out. As gunshots and explosions reduce everything to chaos, the clock is reset to zero and we proceed to revisit the scene as experienced by several Secret Service agents (namely Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox), an American tourist with camcorder (Forest Whitaker), sundry locals--including three who may be caught up in a love triangle or a conspiracy or both--and even the President himself (William Hurt).
For a while, this is mildly diverting: that guy, or that gesture, so sinister when glimpsed across the plaza in one run-through, now appears harmless in close-up--or vice versa. But there's no real ambiguity (so stop with the careless comparisons to Kurosawa's Rashomon)--this is a shell game in which the peas aren't worth tracking. Despite decent actors, the characters might as well be holograms (although poor Forest Whitaker is saddled with "motivation" of surpassing sappiness), and the casting telegraphs several twists: one redoubtable good guy practically gives a wink-wink, nudge-nudge that he's really bad, etc. The movie declines to specify which nutjob philosophy the terrorists espouse, and their numbers are multi-ethnic. There's also a laborious suggestion that they have bloodthirsty, reactionary counterparts among the President's inner circle, which perhaps qualifies as redeeming socio-political comment and prompts a meaningless declaration of deep meaning from the Prez. The whole megilleh finally comes down to an extended car chase through impassably claustrophobic streets that would mark a lurch into unintentional self-parody--if only that point hadn't been passed a couple of rewinds earlier. --Richard T. Jameson
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