Is it art? Not remotely. But, up to the final scenes, it’s a tremendous piece of engineering. And the hurtling force of Vantage Point is fun to watch.
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02/25/08
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Vantage Point (2008)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:7
Rotten:21
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: Vantage Point has an interesting premise that is completely undermined by fractured storytelling and wooden performances.
Theatrical Release:Feb 22, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $72,266,306
Synopsis: A presidential assassination attempt is told from multiple points of view in Pete Travis's directorial debut, VANTAGE POINT. U.S. president Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain (though much... [More]
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Pete Travis
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Reviews for Vantage Point
Top CriticWhile 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 tepid thriller that promises more than it delivers.
02/22/08
Top CriticVantage 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.
02/22/08
Top CriticWhen everything is finally revealed, the story Vantage Point tells is fairly pedestrian, and nothing special is gained from all the stopping and restarting.
02/22/08
Top CriticDirector Pete Travis keeps things grim and gritty and moving.
02/22/08
Top CriticA gimmick in search of its own point.
02/22/08
Top CriticChugging 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 way of dribbling out information.
02/22/08
Top CriticWhile it's no classic, Vantage Point is well worth a look.
02/22/08
Top CriticInitially 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.
02/22/08
Top CriticA nice, straightforward, good old-fashioned geopolitical conspiracy thriller with no pretentions.
02/22/08
Top CriticThe problem with Vantage Point is that the rapid-rewind technique keeps interfering with the thriller's momentum.
02/22/08
Top CriticYou can watch a Bugs Bunny cartoon from 10 different angles, and it's still a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Vantage Point is a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
02/22/08
Top CriticVantage Point makes nice use of the heft of Dennis Quaid, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver in a story in which an assassination followed by an explosion gets revisited from eight points of view.
02/22/08
Top CriticIf you're up for good nihilist entertainment, look no further.
02/22/08
Top CriticReduces 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 be.
02/22/08
Top CriticWhat 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 deafening hysteria and identically dreadful music.
02/22/08
Top CriticThe filmmakers hook us and reel us in during 90 breathless minutes.
02/22/08
Top CriticStraight out of the slice-and-dice school of filmmaking, Vantage Point fractures chronology and perspective in a vain attempt to disguise its flimsiness.
02/21/08
Top CriticA 23-minute movie dragged out, via some narrative gimmickry, to a punishing hour and a half.
02/21/08
Top CriticThe information sorting and gathering required by Barry L. Levy's screenplay feels like night school as opposed to a great night out at the movies.
02/21/08
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