Vantage Point (2008)

D-

For movies like Vantage Point, life is too short.

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08/24/08

2.5/4

If you are looking for mindless action, it's not bad. But since this is trying to be something more than that, I can't quite recommend it.

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07/22/08

C

The whodunit-with-terrorist-undertones doesn't test, shock or surprise the audience in any unique way.

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07/19/08

1/5

It swears it's being clever yet refuses to trust the audience.

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07/17/08

2/4

Asks us to believe the terrorists would, after slaughtering countless people, risk their entire plan--and their very lives--on...well, I won't say. But from my vantage point, it was ridiculous.

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07/01/08

1.5/5

[Vantage Point is] a puzzle cut by a drunken, three-fingered jigsaw operator who lost a few pieces and chewed on a few others.

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06/08/08

N/A

To fall for Vantage Point you have to throw away any connection to reality.

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05/22/08

3/5

This is satisfying Friday night popcorn fare - slick and noisy and utterly disposable.

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05/13/08

3/5

If you thought 24's perspective on terrorism was, well, limited, get ready to groan. The meat and potatoes of Vantage Point -- the suicide bomb explosions, the bloody fisticuffs and blaring car chases -- are indeed awesome, and that's what truly matters f

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04/15/08

2/4

Those inclined to scrutinize the logic of Barry Levy's screenplay are likely to come away as baffled by its farfetched twists as amused by its bombastic excesses.

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04/10/08

3.5/5

Vantage Point takes a pretty high concept, dribbles a bunch of red herrings all over it, and makes things go boom, reaping better yields than the average TV show.

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03/29/08

2/4

When you wrap a movie around a gimmick, the wrapping better be taut and engaging or the gimmick falls flat.

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03/27/08

N/A

As Vantage Point becomes increasingly busy with personal betrayals and redemptions, the ostensible politics, reductive to begin with, fall by the wayside.

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03/21/08

4/5

Vantage Point is a tense and imaginative thriller that reels you in the longer it goes along, only to lose focus in the last 15 minutes. This final reel misstep is a shame, but it’s not enough to ruin all the good work that’s come before it.

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03/20/08

3/5

With a little more work this could have been a first-rate thriller along the lines of the Bourne films, because the concept is intriguing and our interest is held for a significant part of the film.

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03/19/08

N/A

There's roughly 20 minutes of story here, and no matter how many times they stop and start over again from an even more preposterous angle, it's still going to play out like a lousy episode of 24.

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03/17/08

4/5

If you're watching for perfectly matched action you're not into the mystery and you probably aren't going to be very sympathetic to the effort involved.

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03/17/08

2.5/4

Writer Barry Levy has added some snap, crackle and pop to what would otherwise be a routine action film had it been presented in chronological order.

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03/16/08

3/5

A curta duração e o ritmo constantemente frenético do filme mantêm o espectador atento e interessado, mesmo que o objeto de tanta atenção não faça muito sentido em retrospecto.

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03/15/08

N/A

Watchably silly at best, it's the political thriller as an unintentional comedy of errors - 24 meets Noises Off.

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03/07/08