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Vantage Point (2008) -- With a Rashomon narrative style, the attempted assassination of the president is told from several different perspectives.
Vantage Point (2008) -- With a Rashomon narrative style, the attempted assassination of the president is told from several different perspectives.

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Barry Levy (written by)
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Release Date:
22 February 2008 (USA) more
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8 Strangers. 8 Points of View. 1 Truth. more
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The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives. full summary | full synopsis
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1 win & 1 nomination more
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Rated PG-13 for sequences of intense violence and action, some disturbing images and brief strong language.
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90 min
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Matthew Fox, Eduardo Noriega, Forest Whitaker and the director Pete Travis attended the premiere held in Salamanca, Spain, on February 12 2008. They were declared "Distinguished Guests" by the City Hall. more
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Continuity: Towards the end of the film when Kent Taylor is being shot at while driving, he is seen on the right of the car (through the windscreen) but just before he swerves into the concrete (before he realizes he is going to crash) he is seen on the left of the car (through the windscreen). more
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Mark Reinhart: Good morning, America. It's now 12 noon in Salamanca, Spain. In a short time, world leaders from over 150 countries meet here in Plaza Mayor to sign up to President Ashton's bold new counterterrorist strategy. Since 9/11, more than 4500 people have been killed in the rising tide of global terror...
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18 out of 27 people found the following review useful.
What's The Point??, 22 February 2008
4/10
Author: prodbabies from United States

Vantage Point starts off with the incident that you see in all the trailers. An incident is all the story real amounts to. We watch the first POV from that of the news crew -- however, it is real not a point of view of any specific person, we just follow the action of certain people -- when the story reaches a certain point we quickly rewind to the next POV (kinda) from the same time (which time-code on the screen becomes part of the films laughable points) the first began.

In all, we watch a very repetitive story, and not much of an actual story at that. No character study, depth or explanation of why any characters do what they do (only a slight history on ONE character). While you do not need and in depth character study for all films, usually there is someone you emphasize with.

As I watch the film, the fourth time the story rewound, the scoffs in the theater had become out-loud laughs, and not the good kind, the kind that tells you the rest of the audience agrees with your own thought of how stupid the film really is.

In the end, there is no real story and surprisingly mediocre performances from actors who usually perform rather well. This usually indicates an unskilled director. When most actors in a film look bad, including those usually good, it is the director! Other than an attempt at a film exercise of some sort, when the film was over I could only ask, "What's the point of Vantage Point?"

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