Vantage Point Details

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. Should have gone straight to TV.

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Not a good film (Has a spoiler)

A Very poor film. Dennis Quaid just seems to walk about saying 'oh my god' before continuing on the plot of over-done cliches. If you're looking for a film similar for action, watch the bourne trilogy, if your looking for time rewinding, Amores Perros or Memento, if your looking for similar acting, watch any steven segal movie (everyone was poor). Sidenote: I still havent figured out why Forest Whitaker is in this, he doesnt do anything! he just sort of, point out what he sees and nobody listens to him. Fair enough he pulls the girl out of the way for a very welcomed ending but surely Dennis 'I-dont-care-if-im-shot-I-can-still-run-and-be-awe some-even-though-a-guy-forty-years-younger-than-me -got-hit-in-the-same-place-and-it-nearly-killed-hi m' Quaid could have continued to save her? Could have been good, but it isnt how it turned out.

Second spoiler: why couldnt the special ops guy, who took out an entire team of bodyguards, shoot straight when Quaid was 100 meters in front of him in the open?!