Vantage Point is a patented representative of this year's early mediocrity. Vantage Point is trailer trash.
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Vantage Point (2008)
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Reviews Counted:149
Fresh:51
Rotten:98
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Vantage Point has an interesting premise that is completely undermined by fractured storytelling and wooden performances.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr. 29 min.
Genre: Action & Adventure, Mystery & Suspense, Drama
Theatrical Release: Feb 20, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $72.3M
Synopsis: An attempted assassination of the president is told from five different points of view. [More]
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill
Director: Pete Travis
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REVIEWS FOR VANTAGE POINT
For movies like Vantage Point, life is too short.
Aug 24, 2008
If you are looking for mindless action, it's not bad. But since this is trying to be something more than that, I can't quite recommend it.
Jul 22, 2008
The whodunit-with-terrorist-undertones doesn't test, shock or surprise the audience in any unique way.
Jul 19, 2008
It swears it's being clever yet refuses to trust the audience.
Jul 17, 2008
Asks us to believe the terrorists would, after slaughtering countless people, risk their entire plan--and their very lives--on...well, I won't say. But from my vantage point, it was ridiculous.
Jul 1, 2008
[Vantage Point is] a puzzle cut by a drunken, three-fingered jigsaw operator who lost a few pieces and chewed on a few others.
Jun 8, 2008
To fall for Vantage Point you have to throw away any connection to reality.
May 22, 2008
If you thought 24's perspective on terrorism was, well, limited, get ready to groan. The meat and potatoes of Vantage Point -- the suicide bomb explosions, the bloody fisticuffs and blaring car chases -- are indeed awesome, and that's what truly matters f
Apr 15, 2008
Those inclined to scrutinize the logic of Barry Levy's screenplay are likely to come away as baffled by its farfetched twists as amused by its bombastic excesses.
Apr 10, 2008
Vantage Point takes a pretty high concept, dribbles a bunch of red herrings all over it, and makes things go boom, reaping better yields than the average TV show.
Mar 29, 2008
When you wrap a movie around a gimmick, the wrapping better be taut and engaging or the gimmick falls flat.
Mar 27, 2008
As Vantage Point becomes increasingly busy with personal betrayals and redemptions, the ostensible politics, reductive to begin with, fall by the wayside.
Mar 21, 2008
Vantage Point is a tense and imaginative thriller that reels you in the longer it goes along, only to lose focus in the last 15 minutes. This final reel misstep is a shame, but it’s not enough to ruin all the good work that’s come before it.
Mar 20, 2008
With a little more work this could have been a first-rate thriller along the lines of the Bourne films, because the concept is intriguing and our interest is held for a significant part of the film.
Mar 19, 2008
There's roughly 20 minutes of story here, and no matter how many times they stop and start over again from an even more preposterous angle, it's still going to play out like a lousy episode of 24.
Mar 17, 2008
If you're watching for perfectly matched action you're not into the mystery and you probably aren't going to be very sympathetic to the effort involved.
Mar 17, 2008
Writer Barry Levy has added some snap, crackle and pop to what would otherwise be a routine action film had it been presented in chronological order.
Mar 16, 2008
A curta duração e o ritmo constantemente frenético do filme mantêm o espectador atento e interessado, mesmo que o objeto de tanta atenção não faça muito sentido em retrospecto.
Mar 15, 2008
Watchably silly at best, it's the political thriller as an unintentional comedy of errors - 24 meets Noises Off.
Mar 7, 2008
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