he attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from eight witnesses with eight different points of view. But just when you think you know the answer, the shattering final truth is revealed.
16 January 1972, Japan
28 June 1969, Tel Aviv, Israel
15 July 1961, Longview, Texas, USA
11 July 1950, San Antonio, Texas, USA
6 October 1966, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
29 October 1973, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
30 January 1978, Petoskey, Michigan, USA
9 April 1954, Houston, Texas, USA
7 October 1981, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
November1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina
25 March 1977, Caracas, Venezuela
20 March 1950, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
3 September 1963, New York City, New York, USA
27 April 1962, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
8 October 1949, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
19 June 1978, Passaic, New Jersey, USA
1 August 1973, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
14 July 1966, Abington, Pennsylvania, USA
19 July 1973, Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
10 September 1963, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
August 24, 2008
For movies like Vantage Point, life is too short.
February 22, 2008
Vantage 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.
February 22, 2008
All this visual caffeine is in service to a story that isn't worth telling, and that too frequently resorts to the cheap technique of putting an adorable little girl in peril, then cutting away.
March 07, 2008
Although mounted with no little efficiency by director Pete Travis (who previously made the TV drama-doc 'Omagh'), the narrative enterprise actually hides a one-dimensional world view, with civilian casualties mere background set dressing.
February 22, 2008
When everything is finally revealed, the story Vantage Point tells is fairly pedestrian, and nothing special is gained from all the stopping and restarting.
July 19, 2008
The whodunit-with-terrorist-undertones doesn't test, shock or surprise the audience in any unique way.
July 22, 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.
July 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.
February 22, 2008
While 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.
February 02, 2009
Vantage Point is a patented representative of this year's early mediocrity. Vantage Point is trailer trash.
