Vantage Point

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Vantage Point

PG-13

2008

1h 29m

Mystery & Thriller

Action

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Witnesses with different points of view try to unravel an assassination attempt on the U.S. president. Special Agents Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are assigned to protect President Ashton during a summit in Spain on the war on terror. Moments after the leader's arrival, shots ring out, and Ashton is down. In the resulting chaos, an American tourist (Forest Whitaker) comes forward with his camcorder, which he believes contains an image of the shooter.

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Critics Consensus

Vantage Point has an interesting premise that is completely undermined by fractured storytelling and wooden performances.

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Tim Grierson

Screen International

Jul 23, 2008

Although based around a familiar, Rashomon-style concept, Vantage Point ratchets up its intensity so effectively that the lack of originality hardly matters.

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Mar 7, 2008

Watchably silly at best, it's the political thriller as an unintentional comedy of errors - 24 meets Noises Off.

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Wendy Ide

The Times (UK)

Mar 7, 2008

2/5

Vantage Point might sound intriguing on paper but it's all gimmick and not a lot of substance.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 26, 2020

2.0/4.0

Collapses under the weight of predictability.

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

Oct 29, 2019

B

The stylishly slick action flick that doesn't exactly tread into unfamiliar territory, but is still quite entertaining.

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Ellie Lucas

The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)

Jun 6, 2019

2/4

The film's climax has to rank as one of the silliest car chases ever captured on film.

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Robert P

@Superbad Oct 24, 2026

Vantage Point is a *2.5* star Movie! p.s. we have never had a President called "Thomas Barnes"

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Chie 1

@Chieallen Apr 21, 2026

Watching this movie was liking watching a NASCAR race, it just kept coming around and around to the same place And oh how contrived everything ended up being. Its simply unimaginable that a plot against the president would be so complex and intricately designed, relying on so many moving parts, including the ability of a single man to enter the hotel where the president was staying, stride through the lobby, go up the elevator and onto the floor where the president was without once being accosted. And then there’s a little girl in the plaza who loses her mother. Despite the Tourist played by forest Whitaker running about 10 minutes chasing a guy, and the main agent in pursuit of another guy for about 15 minutes, they all end up at exactly the same place at the same time. A wandering little girl out ran all the adults to get to that spot. Simply unbelievable.

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Pongo K

@RT48921889 Feb 7, 2026

Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. What is really "the deal....? Well, "he" survives.

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Timothy C.

@tim821 Feb 3, 2026

The acting was excellent with a remarkable cast. The movie was riveting. The rewinding effect with the view point of various characters, a Rashomon like effect, I thought might be tiresome but not so in my opinion. I feel that this movie has been unfairly maligned. It is entertaining with interesting plot twists. It definitely is worth viewing.

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Afrikaanse B

@RT87633843 Oct 16, 2025

Story line is all over the place making it hard to track what's the whole point of the plot. Subpar acting and really a hard to follow movie. Not for me

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kevenquinlan T

@RT75276071 Jul 24, 2025

The movie is great. The reviews for it are laughable. It's entertaining, cool premise, the acting is good. I'm keeping it now in 2025 for my collection but saw it in the theatre and enjoyed it then. The concept of it has been done in a few other movies- I wouldn't say over done nor would I say the movie style detracts in any way. I'm puzzled by the lack of love.

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Pete Travis

Director

Dennis Quaid

Thomas Barnes

Matthew Fox

Kent Taylor

Forest Whitaker

Howard Lewis

Sigourney Weaver

Rex Brooks

William Hurt

President Ashton

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Synopsis

Witnesses with different points of view try to unravel an assassination attempt on the U.S. president. Special Agents Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are assigned to protect President Ashton during a summit in Spain on the war on terror. Moments after the leader's arrival, shots ring out, and Ashton is down. In the resulting chaos, an American tourist (Forest Whitaker) comes forward with his camcorder, which he believes contains an image of the shooter.

Director: Pete Travis
Producer: Neal H. Moritz
Screenwriter: Barry Levy
Distributor: Columbia, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Original Film
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Violence and Action|Brief Strong Language|Some Disturbing Images)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 22, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $72.3M
Runtime: 1h 29m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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