Vantage Point (Single-Disc Edition)
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Actor: Bruce McGill, Dennis Quaid, Edgar Ramirez, Forest Whitaker, Matthew FoxDirector: Pete Travis
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); Cantonese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.40:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-07-01
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Vantage Point (Single-Disc Edition)
DVD Review: Vantage Point
Summary: 5 Stars
Good movie! I liked it! Now my son has borrowed it! Plot not exactly as I expected nor as was described on DVD cover back, but better, goodDVD Review: Not for the single sighted...
Summary: 4 Stars
Great movie all about how things really are and how they can be percieved by the Vantage Point of those involved, those who are dragged unknowingly into, and those surrounding a situation or series of situations. Really keeps you on your toes. It's like a "find the differences between the photos" only on film. Loved itDVD Review: Redefines Suspense, Excellent Premise
Summary: 5 Stars
** This review refers to the Amazon Video on Demand edition of this movie**
Vantage Point was a great movie. Strong acting, strong premise, great suspense and plot development. This was definitely one of the better movies I've seen recently. After watching it I immediately tried to use Amazon's suggestions to find something similar to download. I've never been much of a Dennis Quaid fan but this really gave me a new perspective on him. He can be a bit over the top at some points but that is the role of his character. Overall I'd say that this is one is worth owning! Go forth and buy it!
DVD Review: Vantage Point
Summary: 5 Stars
At first I didn't know what was going on why the tape keep going back to
12:00PMthen I realise that were getting a each scene different person's vantage point. Very good moviei thoroughly enjoyed it. I watched it twice.
DVD Review: This movie is a comedy, right?
Summary: 1 Stars
Right? This movie is supposed to make us laugh, right? Well, either that or this is one of the worst movies made in Hollywood in the last few years. I'm not going to mention any details about that Salamanca where people speak (and sometimes even look) like Mexicans, American trucks drive in American highways, a Mexican train makes a nice contrast against a view of the city and so on. Let's focus on that stupid summit with one guy who looks like from the Middle East, another one like an African dictator and an American president raising his arms in a sign of victory in front of a crowd gathered in the same way they would be for the Sunday market (so easy to get in and out of the Plaza Mayor, you can invite all your terrorist friends to join us!). The rest of the plot follows this "wonderful" beginning supported by two essential ingredients in similar low quality Hollywood movies: the hero with some dramatic problems (here the thing is apparently some stomachache that makes Dennis Quaid's face turn into something painful from time to time at the beginning of the movie to show us how great a hero he is despite those pains) and second, the little girl (oh, the little girl!): don't miss the part where the Mexican or Centroamerican girl (nothing against any nationality but please, don't tell me you shot the entire movie in Spain!!) is in danger: one of the most pathetic scenes in movie history. I really recommend that you watch the movie with a big group of friends (especially if you have some from Spain), make some pop-corn and prepare to laugh with all the 'intelligent" moments in the film. There are so many!!!
Description of Vantage Point (Single-Disc Edition)
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).System Requirements:Running Time: 90 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating:?PG-13 UPC:?043396216167 Manufacturer No:?21616Vantage Point, which aspires to be a cunningly twisted thriller, comes equipped with plenty of hurtling action, handheld camerawork, what-was-that? editing, and a plot that has multiple, contradictory agendas writhing like a nest of snakes. It's all set a-boil within a few blocks of a town square in Spain where a U.S. President is targeted for assassination. Although the movie lasts 90 minutes, the events it depicts are mostly over with in a quarter-hour or so--but seen, rewound, and reseen from half a dozen different (you guessed it) vantage points. The first line in the credits reads "Original Film," apparently the name of the production company. "Gimmick Movie" would be more accurate; the opening reel, effectively jolting, affords an initial overview of the events through the eyes, lenses, monitors, and dueling sensibilities of a TV news producer (Sigourney Weaver), her activist-minded reporter (Zoe Saldana) and crew. Everybody's in Salamanca (actually, Mexico City) for the start of an international conference to reaffirm Arab-Western commitment to the fight against terrorism. Terrorism, of course, sees this as an ideal moment to break out. As gunshots and explosions reduce everything to chaos, the clock is reset to zero and we proceed to revisit the scene as experienced by several Secret Service agents (namely Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox), an American tourist with camcorder (Forest Whitaker), sundry locals--including three who may be caught up in a love triangle or a conspiracy or both--and even the President himself (William Hurt).
For a while, this is mildly diverting: that guy, or that gesture, so sinister when glimpsed across the plaza in one run-through, now appears harmless in close-up--or vice versa. But there's no real ambiguity (so stop with the careless comparisons to Kurosawa's Rashomon)--this is a shell game in which the peas aren't worth tracking. Despite decent actors, the characters might as well be holograms (although poor Forest Whitaker is saddled with "motivation" of surpassing sappiness), and the casting telegraphs several twists: one redoubtable good guy practically gives a wink-wink, nudge-nudge that he's really bad, etc. The movie declines to specify which nutjob philosophy the terrorists espouse, and their numbers are multi-ethnic. There's also a laborious suggestion that they have bloodthirsty, reactionary counterparts among the President's inner circle, which perhaps qualifies as redeeming socio-political comment and prompts a meaningless declaration of deep meaning from the Prez. The whole megilleh finally comes down to an extended car chase through impassably claustrophobic streets that would mark a lurch into unintentional self-parody--if only that point hadn't been passed a couple of rewinds earlier. --Richard T. Jameson
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