Suspenseful, yes - but it's all too far-fetched to matter much.
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02/27/08
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Vantage Point (2008)
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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:53
Rotten:98
Average Rating:5/10
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
Now I know how Bill Murray felt in Groundhog Day.
02/26/08
It doesn't have much more going for it than the rewind gimmick, a very talented cast of actors, and some pretty good action sequences.
02/26/08
[...] one would expect events to be gradually fleshed out until the mystery behind the attack is finally revealed, just in time for a bodacious climax, right? Yeah.
02/26/08
The most unintentionally hilarious film so far this year.
02/25/08
Pete Travis' Rashomon retread reads more like a less funny Groundhog Day.
02/25/08
Vantage Point requires three simultaneous coincidences for the ending to work. That may be a record.
02/25/08
Is it art? Not remotely. But, up to the final scenes, its a tremendous piece of engineering. And the hurtling force of Vantage Point is fun to watch.
02/25/08
Top CriticIt's insane, and preposterous, yet not unentertaining, in its own uniquely goofy and ridiculous way.
02/25/08
The president of the United States gets shot--and then behold! The movie also is down for the count.
02/25/08
Style overwhelms substance. By the seventh rewind, the audience has grown understandably weary.
02/24/08
Dennis Quaid is a Secret Service agent who took a bullet for the President, just as the audience took one for Quaid in Jaws 3-D. That's the sequel where the late, great Roy Scheider uttered the immortal line, "You're gonna need a bigger Anheuser-Busch-own
02/24/08
The movie presents an interesting "Vantage Point." And its gimmick makes it an above-average thriller.
02/24/08
It calls for the suspension of the snort-and-chortle reflex. And it fails even at that.
02/23/08
Between the many 'What the?' moments until its outrageously absurd ending, Vantage Point is a brisk, entertaining experience.
02/23/08
Moderately entertaining for the first hour and then for the last half hour goes up in flames.
02/23/08
I didn't buy that final twist, but it was still a fast, fun, breezy piece of entertainment. Enjoyable way to spend 90 minutes.
02/23/08
In case we haven't had enough fear-mongering in the past few years, this schlock takes up the slack.
02/23/08
...(O)ver-Rashomoned with too many flashbacks, Travis produces a a slambang car chase, even though it does lead to a climax too absurd for words.
02/23/08
There's an interesting idea here, showing a major political event from various perspectives until we finally get to the real story. The problem is that the real story is rather contrived.
02/23/08
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