Vantage Point

Flat-out one of the more exciting and original gut-busters that Hollywood has produced in many a month. It's virtually all action, but the action is never mindless and it is full of marvelous surprises every step of the way.

If you're up for good nihilist entertainment, look no further.

Vantage Point starts to slide off the rails when it tracks a tourist (Forest Whitaker) and his trusty camcorder; instead of Zapruder-like intrigue, the episode has him running around like an agent in a rote thriller.

How can we take this doomsday scenario seriously when we keep waiting for Bruce Willis to rise from the ashes?

Throws in enough hurtling bodies, screaming bullets and totaled cars that it at least holds your interest, so it passes the worth-watching-if-you're-stuck-on-an-airplane test.

Although it was held back by the studio for about a year, someone apparently came to the inevitable conclusion that no amount of ripening time was going to help this gimmicky and ultimately harebrained movie.

Why, beating the audience about the ears, eyes and brain with essentially the same sequence of events from eight characters' points of view, none of which adds much more than deafening hysteria and identically dreadful music. The filmmakers seem to have missed the point that each re-enactment in "Rashomon" provides new and conflicting information. It makes you wonder if they studied the wrong movie. Maybe they rented "Rush Hour," or a video on Rosh Hashanah.

With really great acting, well made action scenes and an interesting scenario, Vantage Point is a movie that hit pretty hard.Even though there is some minor plot holes and some situations are unbelievable, it's still a good entertaining movie.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

With a very good take off, this film gives a feeling **** thriller through half of the movie. But, slowly drops your expectations to low. Showing the same event from different angles is kind of repeating, yet interesting to an extend, giving a kind of Rashomon effect. But, that thrill was not able to keep up throughout the movie, spoiling everything to a stupid ending.

interesting idea but poorly executed. The acting from Dennis Quaid here is really good but its not enough to lift this film past narrative faults. Its an interesting movie though and worth a watch to some

Vantage Point has an intriguing premise, but the execution is kind of poor. The acting is okay, bit the movie could've been a lot more than it is with a better screenplay, and a better director. After about 30 minutes, the movie loses its freshness, although it picks up a little after the real story is revealed a bit more. It goes from a repetitive thriller flick to a generic action movie (which isn't much better). Even for a movie about the same story shown from different points of view, it feels repetitive and dry.