: Vantage Point
This movie had an interesting premise of a presidential asassination seen from multiple perspectives, a number of prominent stars, and a relentless advertising campaign that all made it seem like it could be a decent movie. Unfortunately, they were all proven wrong. Yes, there are some good actors, but the screen time of each is brief and they aren’t given much character to work with. The film hinges on the gimmicky “perspective” idea, so we see the same events from several view points, which sounds neat but turns out to be repetative, tiresome, and new information trickles out so slowly that each time the story “restarts” you want to scream with frustration because you know it’ll be ten minutes before you get back to where you left off and get a new piece of the puzzle. But worst of all, the final “revelations” are decidedly lackluster. The promos have spoiled any real surprise (that the assasinated man was a double, not the real prez), and the ending is just a whimper. Lame.
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