Dennis Quaid,
Matthew Fox,
Forest Whitaker,
Bruce McGill,
Edgar Ramirez
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Forest Whitaker, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, and Matthew Fox star in director Pete Travis' Rashomon-style thriller in which an assassination attempt on the president of the United States is detailed f... read more
Directed by: Pete Travis (II), Pete Travis
Release Date: February 20, 2008
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DVD Release Date: July 1, 2008
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August 13, 2008A completely new concept to me to film the movie shooting the same part from several different characters views till you ran it all together at the end. A good action ride and kept me watching the whole time.
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An average storyline but an entertaining thriller. By no means impressive but the way the story was told was actually quite well done. It is cleverly told by different characters perspectives and is susp... read more -
March 3, 2012An interesting cinematic idea saddled with a typical script yet lightened by a good cast. The President, fighting terrorism, is under threat by some clever radical elements yet protected by a do or die Secret Service man ... wonder how it turns out?
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November 27, 2011Vanatage Point is a well shot, implausible and mostly diverting puzzle. Like Kurosawa's 'Rashomon' it tells its story through (I think) seven different character perspectives, in the same 10 or so minute time frame, repeated in succession. Unlike Rashomon, the story is the same... read more
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September 29, 2011Vantage Point has a cool concept and executes pretty well, but sadly watching the same scene over and over from different perspectives is not as cool as I had hoped, and was kind of boring.
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September 28, 2011Vantage Point is mediocre action fair. The plot at first seemed to be quite interesting, and it was for the most part, however thirty minutes in, the film loses its initial intrigue and becomes pretty silly. I thought that was a great shame, because Vantage Point started off well... read more
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September 20, 2011Brilliantly thought out, twisted and original. If only a few more 'thrillers' followed a similar narrative plan. Cast was good, plot was good, and the cinematography was good. The only problem I have is that it wasn't really explained why they wanted to take the president. They e... read more
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September 11, 2011This movie is shot in the style of 24 and Boomtown. The US president is assassinated in Spain. You follow a number of eye witnesses and their day up to that point. Great to see Dennis Quaid back in leading roles. Great performances by Forrest Whitaker and Matthew Fox.
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January 23, 2011Very solid thriller that shows the attempted assassination of the president, being told from five different points of view: 1.Dennis Quaid, 2.Eduardo Noriega, 3.Forrest Whitaker, 4.William Hurt(The President), and 5.Saïd Taghmaoui, Edgar Ramirez, Ayelet Zurer, and Matthew Fox(The... read more
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October 17, 2010Vantage Point is a film that's not without its excitement, and though it's hardly the first film to try the tell-the-same-story-from-multiple-viewpoints approach, this challenging style has been put to better use. The film required active watching, and yet it didn't, because it r... read more
Critic Reviews
February 25, 2008
David Denby, New Yorker
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
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star
Vantage Point is a thriller that has quite a lot on its mind. The very structure of the movie challenges the audience's patience, if not its wit. 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
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
An overplotted, gimmicky presidential-assassination thriller, its interlocking pieces have to fit just so for it to stay coherent and ratchet up the tension. Full Review
February 22, 2008
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
Director Pete Travis keeps things grim and gritty and moving. 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, Minneapolis Star Tribune
While it's no classic, Vantage Point is well worth a look. Full Review
February 22, 2008
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
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. Full Review
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