Vantage Point (Blu-ray) PG-13

Vantage Point (Blu-ray)
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 1, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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Although based around a familiar, Rashomon-style concept, Vantage Point ratchets up its intensity so effectively that the lack of originality hardly matters.
Screen International
Jul 23, 2008
Rating: 2/6 -- Although mounted with no little efficiency by director Pete Travis (who previously made the TV drama-doc 'Omagh'), the narrative enterprise actually hides a one-dimensional world view, with civilian casualties mere background set dressing. Full Review
Time Out
Mar 7, 2008
The most intrusive of these problems is the acting. Full Review
WORLD
Oct 11, 2018
Is it too much to ask for procedural thrillers like Vantage Point to connect all their dots before the closing credits? Full Review
East Bay Express
Apr 28, 2011
3 stars out of 5 -- The high concept of VANTAGE POINT is 24 meets RASHOMON....With good performances and some smarts.
Empire
Apr 1, 2008
Rating: 2/4 -- The film's climax has to rank as one of the silliest car chases ever captured on film. Full Review
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
Jun 6, 2019
Watchably silly at best, it's the political thriller as an unintentional comedy of errors - 24 meets Noises Off. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Mar 7, 2008

Product Description:

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 of the film was actually shot in Mexico), to announce plans for a major global summit on terrorism. But as he stands behind the podium in front of an adoring crowd (with protesters blocked off from the stage), he is shot twice, followed shortly by a small explosion and then a massive blast. Secret Service Agents Barnes (Dennis Quaid), Taylor (Matthew Fox), and Holden (Richard T. Jones) immediately jump into action, trying to find the terrorists responsible amid all the chaos. The thriller first shows the events through the eyes of television news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver), and then the film rewinds, replaying the action from a different point of view. Each perspective reveals a few more clues, then rewinds again, taking the audience through the assassination attempt and its aftermath again. VANTAGE POINT has the feel of the 1950 Akira Kurosawa classic RASHOMON, told with the speed of the television show 24. The all-star cast also includes Forest Whitaker, who gives another fine performance, playing an American tourist recording everything on his video camera. The rewind device--reminiscent of the Bill Murray comedy GROUNDHOG DAY--could have been gimmicky, but instead Travis and first-time screenwriter Barry L. Levy make it work, as more details are revealed with each flashback, leading to a pulse-pounding chase and surprising finale.

Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

During an historic counter-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is struck down by an assassin's bullet. Eight strangers have a perfect view of the kill, but what did they really see' As the minutes leading up to the fatal shot are replayed through the eyes of each eyewitness, the reality of the assassination takes shape. But just when you think you know the answer, the shattering final truth is revealed. VANTAGE POINT is a mindbending political action-thriller starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Academy Award® Winner Forest Whitaker (Best Actor 2006, The Last King of Scotland), with Sigourney Weaver and Academy Award® winner William Hurt (Best Actor 1985, Kiss of the Spider Woman).

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  • UPC: 043396216198
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