The general story is that the President of the United States has been shot, and there are many witnesses with many points of view, including one with the mastermind of the terrorist plot. The movie will show you each witness’s viewpoint, and up till a certain moment in time, they will backtrack like reversing a VCR. Then another point of view will begin at the same time as everyone elses’ begin, at 12pm. This goes on for quite a number of time, so you may either be sick of the way the story goes, or you can find it refreshing. I found it refreshing and a nice way to show everything.
In the last point of view, everything will be shown from each of the witnesses last point of view, and you will see what they saw before the movie stopped showing from their point of view. You can see that some people are just being made use of and they die in the end. Some people are really bad.
Spoilers!!!
Well, one of the secret service dudes is part of the terrorist organization. The shot that hit the “president” came from a window and is operated by a machine getting commands from a PDA phone. Same goes with the bombs. I say “President” because it’s fake one. A double. Anyway the real president still gets kidnapped.
The day is saved when a lost child stands in the middle of the road. The rogue ambulance carrying the terrorist and the President had to break and do a drift (ok maybe not intentionally) and the ambulance got overturned. The hero, Thomas managed to check the situation out and save the president again. I say “again” because he saved the president once. Maybe they should give him a hero’s retirement with a great pension.
Spoilers end!!
Anyway I think it’s a pretty great movie to catch. I rate it 4/5 stars. I think that’s high because I don’t rate 5/5. There is no such thing as a perfect movie.
Other links
Vantage Point Movie Official Site
IMDB
Wikipedia
Apple Trailers
Movie Information
Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker
Director: Pete Travis
Genre:Action/ Adventure
Language: English
Release Date:20 March 2008
Running Time:86 minutes
Vantage point shouldn’t disappoint I guess. I feel that its the best movie at the moment. Perhaps Untracable can win it.
Wanted to drop by and thank you for the pong! I’m really keen on watching Vantage Point too! Hope it doesn’t disappoint.
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