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Whistle Stopper - Vantage Point (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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List Price: $34.95
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396266698
Format: AC-3
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: 2008-07-01
Running Time: 90
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2008-02-22
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Summary: Attn: Memory Recall Needed
Comment: What an exciting movie! Reminded me of several past political flicks- elements from each combined in Vantage Point to make it an "end-of-your-seat thriller." I'd recommend to viewers to have extra patience when viewing this for the first time. The events are rewound several times in order for the viewer to understand whats happening. That's the simple way of saying without good memory recall a viewer might get lost in the crowd. I'd also class this film as one to use with certain rehab patients. Not joking here - often films have multiple uses as well as audiences. Another plus with "Advantage Point" is the involvement of citizen spectators during a national crisis, a reminder of 9/11. The tourist becomes a hero just because he/she was filming the surrounding as the fatal attack begins. Outstanding scenery, plots, characters, and more. However, in the end the movie was a close second to the ever popular "Dave", using a stand-in President as a cover for the real one. And it was a good move, too, since the stand-in was actually assassinated.
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Summary: Lots to like.
Comment: Yes, there is a lot to like about this movie. Big names playing small parts, and the reverse. Not a lot of acting but a good story line, and lots of things happening at once. At one point I was quite taken by surprise. It took me a bit of time to realize the importance of the replays but they're absolutely necessary to the theme as they provide the different "vantage point" of the title, which I found interesting and unique. Try it, I think you'll like it. I did.
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Summary: Misdirection Insurrection
Comment: Vantage Point was fun to watch. I thought that the way Director Pete Travis told the story was cool.
The first hour of the movie is basically a loop of the same action, but from various different perspectives, or Vantage Points, of several key players that witness a diabolical scheme to assassinate The President of the United States.
You may know already that one of my biggest pet peeves is spoilers. I hate spoilers. And I'm not about to write one out here so don't worry. But if you've ever seen the trailer for Vantage Point and then watch the movie, you'll be like, "why the heck did they give away that critical twist?" In fact, the trailer for this movie goes so far as to (deliberately) misdirect you into preconceiving who the bad guys are.
But why??? Did the director or producers think that their movie would be too obvious and predictable without the misdirection? I don't think it would have been. On the contrary, the misdirection made Vantage Point seem like it would be another one of the many government conspiracy theory movies. But it's not. And I think that the marketing of this movie contributed to its lackluster box office performance.
Dennis Quaid and Matthew Fox are great. Forest Whitaker's character is completely unbelievable...as in, it's hard to swallow a single action that Whitaker's character makes. William Hurt is The President, but seemed like he was in an Altered State.
All in all, I'd recommend catching this, but if you've got to choose, whatever your other choice is might top Vantage Point...from this perspective.
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Summary: Coign of Vantage
Comment: Fete of Death
I rather liked the thriller "Vantage Point." The repetition of the movie's story from the different points of view of the main characters affords the movie a nightmarish quality. It's like you have to keep reliving a nightmare over and over making it that much more hellish, the tension mounting with each reliving. You feel trapped with no escape. You know what's going to happen and there's nothing you can do about it. The strands of the plot come together plausibly when the ambulance careens toward the little girl on the street, and in the ensuing violence and car crashes the story is resolved satisfactorily.
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Summary: Highly contrived, inconsistent, uninvolving
Comment: What one expects from such a movie is that some events are initially misinterpreted and that others assume increasing significance. However, here the inconsistencies, illogic and absurdities pile up at an annoying pace (see other reviews for examples). This prevented me from having any investment in the story.
The underlying sequence of events is not that substantial (in addition to painfully contrived). Consequently, the different vantage points have a disproportionate amount of repetition relative to the new information that is layered on. My reaction at the end was "Is that all there was?"
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Editorial Reviews:
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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: 043396266698 Manufacturer No: 26669
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