Vantage Point (2008)

  Plot Summary & Review

Not a bad way to spend a few hours on a rainy afternoon, though not ground breaking stuff by any stretch of the imagination. We see an assassination attempt on US president Ashton (William Hurt) on a visit to Spain, from eight different perspectives.  Being looked after by FBI agent Tom Barnes (Dennis Quaid) who had the year before taken a bullet for the president during a previous attempt on his life, Tom is going to once again play an important part in what is about to take place.  In the square on the day of the president's speech is tourist Howard Lewis (Forest Whittaker) filming the unfolding events on his camera, and TV producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver) who is overseeing news coverage in a mobile unit, along with a host of other people who will all play a part in the day’s proceedings.

It's put together reasonably well with a few unexpected twists and turns along the way, an exciting car chase near the end of the film, and quite clever in its own way.  My main criticism is the continual repetition of some of the scenes when each perspective is shown, it just became a bit tiresome, and sadly it was the usual gung-ho American nonsense at the end, though that was always going to happen.

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