Powerful

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Vantage Point (2008) is a very exciting film that is full of interesting twists and turns. All the actors do very well in it as well. Sigourney Weaver does a great job here, she gives a very dramatic and focused performance, even though her appearance in the film is rather brief. Dennis Quaid, the star of the film, does a pretty good job too, he is very believable in the role. I love how this film was shot, it was shot very beautifully, the setting was very pretty too, I loved the scenery in Spain. The script was well written as well, good dialogue between characters. Now there were a few scenes where the acting was just a little on the cheesy side, but like I said, it was just a few moments where the acting seemed a little wooden. This film is a good time to sit down and watch for a lot of fun action and an interesting plot. 7/10 for vantage point.

What a waste of great acting talent. I just watched it on TV and how glad I am I watched it on cable and didn't have to pay to see this movie. So what do you get? Action? Yes. Car chases: definitely. Original filming: I can appreciate the attempt. Good acting: Always Love Forest Whitaker. 4 points. What was missing? Credibility: 2 bombs passing security, cars hitting walls without airbags opening up, infiltration, people dying on one bullet while other ones keep going and a President that is kidnapped and not assassinated for whatever reason. President is saved, everybody happy. If you have seen Man on Fire then you know why this is such a bad movie. There have been films review-slaughtered who where much and much better then this one. So if you want a brainless action movie, go ahead - but there are much better movies in this category. If you want nothing but pure car chases: go rent the Fast and the Furious. Nice try. No Cigar.

Movies can make the U.S. President's job look like the most frustrating and dangerous job in the world. "Vantage Point" tells the story of the attempted assassination of the President from many people's points of view. Director Pete Travis (Not to be confused with the movie critic for Rolling Stone, Peter Travers) does a nice job showing us different peoples point of view on a chilling situation. He captures how the President isn't the only one affected by his death. We uncover the lives of news reporters, the terrorists and killers, secret service agents, other politicians, and a tourist who all see the world in different ways acting around them. We never know what to believe until the end, making an entertaining movie throughout. We do spend too much time experiencing the character's lives rather than just solving the mystery. This plot not only feels like a theatrical "Law & Order" episode, it would have played better as a quick TV episode. If "Vantage Point" didn't have the corniest dialogue, the wimpiest acting, the stupidest sound and visuals, then maybe this could get a passing grade. We spend too much type viewing the failed attempts at bringing a fun and familiar plot to take us away for a couple hours to mix with a human drama we're supposed to care about. This movie crumbles under ambition and lunacy.

US President Henry Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain , accompanied by his security agents (Matthew Fox and Dennis Quaid as agent newly returned from previous wounds) , for a world summit where an international treaty dealing with the fight against global terrorism will be signed and which was highly promoted by the USA . Then an unknown sniper is able to shoot him and a bomb goes off in the square and it causes panic , destruction , mass confusion and hysteria . Meanwhile , TV Executive Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver whose role was originally written as a male but filmmaker changed it to a woman because he felt the movie lacked a strong female character) is shooting the surprising deeds . The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives , as from a tourist (in the original screenplay, the tourist was a Russian , as when Forest Whitaker auditioned for a different role, filmmaker was so impressed that he rewrote as an American tourist) or a Spanish police (Eduardo Noriega) o terrorists (Edgar Ramirez ,Saïd Taghmaoui , Ayelet Zurer) and fourth is the president himself . At the end new vantage point is shown revealing additional details, which definitively completes the flick of what really took place during the incident and who was involved in the conspiracy.Stirring as well as exciting film packs noisy action , thrills , suspense , explosions , violence , twits and turns . Thrilling film with a peculiar edition narrated under several sight points , as various minutes are retold, emphasizing different characters' actions and gradually, we discover who's behind the script . The studio originally wanted to shoot the entire film in Salamanca, Spain, but the local government refused to close the Plaza Mayor for nearly 3 months and only the scenes filmed from the air were shot in Spain , as production was moved to Cuernavaca and Puebla, Mexico . Nevertheless , Matthew Fox, Eduardo Noriega, Forest Whitaker and director Pete Travis attended the premiere, held in Salamanca, Spain, on February 12, 2008 and City Hall declared them "Distinguished Guests". The original script set the story in Madrid, but the producers wanted a more "exotic" location. The fact is revealed in some scenes, like the secret service guy who says they can't locate a single person among "5 or 6 million" (Madrid's population; Salamanca's is much smaller), or when the cop enters a Muslim neighborhood during the foot chase , as Madrid has one, but Salamanca doesn't . Very good production design by Brigitte Boch , when shooting was moved to Mexico, the production design team built a replica of Salamanca's Plaza Mayor, which is slightly smaller than the original . There happens an impressive explosion on the Plaza , it was filmed by fifteen different cameras under direction of excellent photographer Amir Mokri who makes a colorful and evocative cinematography . Moving and adequate Original Music by Atli Örvarsson . The motion picture was compellingly directed by Pete Travis . He is a director and writer, known for Dredd (2012) , Omagh (2004) , End game (2008) , TV Henry VIII (2003) and Falcón (TV Series) 2012 , set in Sevilla , Spain . The precocious technical mastery displayed by Peter Travis in ¨Vantage Point¨ is magnificent and he delivers narrative fluidity , being helped by a splendid editor , Stuart Baird , both of whom carry out a complex story paced from multiple viewpoints . Rating : 7 . Interesting action film and it will appeal to thriller fans .