Vantage Point (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Actor: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Sigourney Weaver, William HurtBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
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 (Two-Disc Special Edition)
DVD Review: Be patient with this GREAT movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is different from all movies you've seen before.
It jumps around from each person's point of view,
if you stick with it, you will be greatly rewarded.
Great acting, great action, and "clean"
The plot was well thoughtout and Dennis Quaid and
the other actors did a wonderful job.
DVD Review: Good not great!
Summary: 3 Stars
I felt as if I was watching a poor mans version of Crash with most of the characters interconnecting in some way throughout only to all come together at the end. The Blu Ray was very good and I found the sound to be exceptional. The explosions could be felt throughout the house, only problem is that the same explosion happened eight times. The car chase reminded me of the Bourne movies and was very exciting. I do have one issue with the car chase and that is for a movie that attempts to be as realistiic as possible it is annoying to watch cars crash over and over again but still aquire no damage when seen from a distance. I might be nit picking but it is a pet peave of mine. Overall it is worth the watch!DVD Review: There's no point to it at all
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought Vantage Point in a '3 DVDS for ?15' sale at the supermarket. Always a bad sign, especially if a film's only been out a month or so... but I'm a sucker for a bargain, and anyway, the cast looked good.
Another giveaway for a 'stinker' is the running time. This one clocks in at only 80 minutes, suggesting it has been butchered by a despairing crew in the editing suite, who realised its flimsy one-dimensional story couldn't possibly stand up for any longer than this. Or even, indeed, that it collapsed on its weedy pencil-thin legs within 10 minutes and lay there floundering on its back like an irritating cockroach just waiting to be squished.
So.. just 80 minutes long. It gets a bonus star for not wasting too much of my life.
But then it loses three when you discover that the first 50 minutes of it is seeing the same sequence over and over again, from the viewpoints of different characters.
Quite why this was done, or what it added to the plot, is beyond me.
I thought there'd be some breathtaking double whammy at the end where, for example, they were all in it together, or that we had to piece together cleverly written clues in each segment to reveal the true shock-horror conspiracy behind the sequence of events, or something.
But no. That was way beyond the hyper young fools behind this project. What you see is a flat one-dimensional storyline, with a dull seen-it-all-before car chase tagged on it at the end. And, er, that's it.
None of the characters have any depth. They all do ludicrous out-of-character things at critical moments. The good guy who's really a bad guy is obvious from the moment you see him. And the plot is riddled with more holes than a bullet-riddled sieve.
But just why is it so bad? Have we any more clues on this DVD?
If you can bear it, I suggest you just watch a bit of the 'making of' extra on the DVD and reel back in open-mouthed horror and astonishment at the young stupid boys behind this project.
A director who looks about 20 years old with a wild 'kewpie doll' orange haircut.
A scriptwriter whose loving description of his masterpiece resembles that of a rather thick third-former trying to convince his teacher that his English essay isn't the crock of C-minus doggie-doo that everybody else in the class knows it is.
A shedload of other young 'creatives' all doing their jobs on the set, all indulging themselves in the most criminal waste of money since the banks collapsed on both sides of the Atlantic.
How in the name of God did these talentless berks get a multi-million pound budget to blow on their lamebrain schoolboy drivel?
The final indignity is to see the likes of Sigourney Weaver, who really should know better, sit there all breathless and wide-eyed and animated, desperately hyping it up as some sort of 'must-see thriller of the year', when they know and we know and anyone with an ounce of brain cells in his bonce know they are vamping up a pile of old bilgewater... and are only babbling in this crazy manner as part of their contractual duties to promote the film.
It's the best acting you'll see on this whole DVD.
DVD Review: Gimmicky but exciting at the end.
Summary: 4 Stars
While it repeats like a bad meal, Vantage Point is decently directed and the final sequence--although 110% predictable--is pretty damn exciting. This may be a stretch but I detected an underlying message about the value of human life, in the midst of all that chaos.DVD Review: Great movie with great bonus features.
Summary: 5 Stars
Without spoiling the movie, the idea of going over the same events from several different characters separate points of view really works. It is fun trying to figure out who the good and bad guys are.
The bonus feature that lets you track each characters movement as the action unfolds really lets you see the detail and effort the film makers put into trying to make sure that everything happens in the right place at the right time.
The movie is 4 stars, the bonus features get it the fifth.
Description of Vantage Point (Two-Disc Special 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 mind bending 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).Vantage 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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