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02/21/08
Vantage Point (2008)
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Reviews Counted:151
Fresh:53
Rotten:98
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Vantage Point has an interesting premise that is completely undermined by fractured storytelling and wooden performances.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Mar 13, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $72,266,306
Synopsis: A presidential assassination attempt is told from multiple points of view in Pete Travis's directorial debut, VANTAGE POINT. U.S. president Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain (though much... [More]
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver
Director: Pete Travis
Reviews for Vantage Point
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
A story that could easily (and more effectively) have been told in about half the time.
02/21/08
Disappointing action flick centers on terrorism.
02/21/08
An assassination thriller that boasts the glossy tourist vistas of an airline magazine combined with a serious case of instant-replay-itis.
02/21/08
Vantage Point offers a modicum of entertainment but it requires viewers to react more forcefully from the gut than the mind. It's viscerally effective but lobotomized.
02/21/08
The bones of a good idea for a conspiracy thriller lie buried in the corpse of Vantage Point. It feels more like a movie with a personality disorder.
02/21/08
Offers less entertainment than just awareness of how nearly every American male role seems like it was intended for Harrison Ford.
02/21/08
The question regarding Vantage Point is how this thriller with the Groundhog Day fixation was allowed to meander out of Columbia Pictures so overloaded with bad acting.
02/21/08
Top CriticNothing in Vantage Point quickens the pulse as much as the realization that, with each successive turn of the wheel, we come one step closer to the end.
02/21/08
The setup is so riveting, the suspense so carefully prolonged, that I didn't mind when it unraveled into lunacy near the end.
02/21/08
The problem with Vantage Point, or at least one problem, is that it depends too much on coincidence. The film relies on things breaking a certain way for nearly every plot advancement.
02/21/08
What Travis has done is nothing short of create a new kind of American action film that feels European in the same way that William Friedkin's "French Connection" did.
02/21/08
Cool game plan on paper, unfortunately, the execution lacks. Further, this is not the subject matter with which to play games.
02/21/08
Once the full panoply of bad guys is disclosed, the movie becomes just another absurdly prolonged hot pursuit, complete with a lost little girl for a dollop of extra melodrama.
02/21/08
A tight, solid mystery/thriller that keeps you guessing until the end.
02/21/08
...a marketing hook first and a movie ... well, actually, never.
02/21/08
The ending, suffice it to say, is one you won't soon forget no matter how much you'll want to.
02/20/08
Choppy, point-of-view twisting thriller that never rises above its gimmickry.
02/20/08
Starts off well but then tries to replicate the fast-paced frenzy of The Bourne Ultimatum with an improbable car chase.
02/20/08
Alas, this well-crafted terrorist plot is sandwiched between two terrible acts, making for the kind of movie that you should walk into late and sneak out of early.
02/20/08
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