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Vantage Point [Blu-ray] [2008]

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Binding : Blu-ray
EAN : 5050629661910
Label : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Publisher : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date : 2008-08-04
Title : Vantage Point [Blu-ray] [2008]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 12 years and over
Format : PAL
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 2008-01-01
Running time : 90
Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 2008

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk review
piVantage Point/i, which aspires to be a cunningly twisted thriller, comes equipped with plenty of hurtling action, handheld camerawork, what-was-that? editing, and a plot that has multiple, contradictory agendas writhing like a nest of snakes. It's all set within a few blocks of a town square in Spain where a U.S. President is targeted for assassination. Although the movie lasts 90 minutes, the events it depicts are mostly over within fifteen minutes or so--but seen, rewound, and reseen from half a dozen different (you guessed it) vantage points. The first line in the credits reads "Original Film," apparently the name of the production company. "Gimmick Movie" might be more accurate. The opening reel, effectively jolting, affords an initial overview of the events through the eyes, lenses, monitors, and duelling sensibilities of a TV news producer (Sigourney Weaver), her activist-minded reporter (Zoe Saldana) and crew. Everybody’s in Salamanca for the start of an international conference to reaffirm Arab-Western commitment to the fight against terrorism. Terrorism, of course, sees this as an ideal moment to break out. As gunshots and explosions reduce everything to chaos, the clock is reset to zero and we proceed to revisit the scene as experienced by several Secret Service agents (namely Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox), an American tourist with camcorder (Forest Whitaker), sundry locals--including three who may be caught up in a love triangle or a conspiracy or both--and even the President himself (William Hurt)./p pFor a while, this is mildly diverting: that guy, or that gesture, so sinister when glimpsed across the plaza in one run-through, now appears harmless in closeup--or vice versa. But there's no real ambiguity (so stop with the careless comparisons to Kurosawa's iRashomon/i)--this is a shell game in which the peas aren't worth tracking. Despite decent actors, the characters might as well be holograms (although poor Forest Whitaker is saddled with "motivation" of surpassing sappiness), and the casting telegraphs several twists: one redoubtable good guy practically gives a wink-wink, nudge-nudge that he's really bad, etc. The movie declines to specify which nutjob philosophy the terrorists espouse, and their numbers are multi-ethnic. There's also a laborious suggestion that they have bloodthirsty, reactionary counterparts among the President's inner circle, which perhaps qualifies as redeeming socio-political comment and prompts a meaningless declaration of deep meaning from the Prez. The whole megilleh finally comes down to an extended car chase through impassably claustrophobic streets that would mark a lurch into unintentional self-parody--if only that point hadn't been passed a couple of rewinds earlier. i--Richard T. Jameson/i/p

Customer reviews

review by: Jay M date: 2009-04-30 rating:

A movie told from a different prospective!
This film for me was a good watch as it wasnt like most films out there. They did a tidy job showing the film from different perspectives and overall I felt it was a decent watch. Its not Die Hard or The Bourne films but its still worth a watch.

review by: psudonymous date: 2009-03-10 rating:

Bit naff really
its a shame because it starts off quite well and i was more than content with how it was going until the view point of camcorder guy i forget the actor's name but he is just dire in this partly down to poor writing but the film just doesn't recover from this it just falls apart and ends on sentimental tosh and so i would advice folk to avoid this, however.... its your money, you do what you want with it. br / br /I think my main gripe with this film is how the crowds never seem to disperse as you would expect given the gravity of the situation.

review by: stevienbain2 date: 2009-02-19 rating:

Borrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring
The 'hook' behind this movie (seeing the same event from different perspectives) grates after the 2nd retelling. I must have been watching a different movie to the other reviewers... Ever heard the expression.... flogging a dead horse? well that applies to this rubbish.

review by: date: 2009-02-07 rating:

groundhog day for a hour
Got this as part of a playstation 3 deal , the film is about the assination of a president and told from quite a few different view points . At first it is quite good but after watching the same thing 4 or 5 times it does get a bit like you are stuck in your own groundhog day.

review by: Film Lover date: 2009-01-12 rating:

Brilliant Action Movie.
I haven't seen a real good action film for a long while to make it five stars, this one has entered there as it's brilliant and with shocking twists, it's a edge of your seat thrill. To see it on Blu-Ray it's stunning to look at and the sound is sharp. The plot is very simple: president gets shot and a big exposion comes next as eight people witness it and show you their own story before this horrifying event happens. Their stories have their own twists and shocks, the ending is a long car-chase and has it done wonderfully with no "Huh? Was it all worth it?" Everyone in the movie was good, not a big fan of Dennis Quaid but he was brilliant in this as was Forest Whittaker, Sigourney Weaver, Matthew Fox and William Hurt. The most shocking thing to me was when I saw the trailer, I had a feeling of one of the top leads was the cause of it all and when I saw it myself, I looked at it in total horror. I couldn't believe my eyes and my heart was beating so fast during the car chase that I couldn't breathe. Something I haven't felt since seeing a few horror movies, it's a brilliant action movie and I would recommend it to anyone who likes 24 with a kind of a twist.

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