Movie Review: Vantage Point (2008)
I generally keep up on reviews for movies through the magazine Entertainment Weekly, and in general, I agree with their reviews. How much I agreed with their review of Vantage Point was surprising. In the review, the author mentioned that the first thirty minutes are very interesting, and then you get frustrated. Sure enough, I'm watching the movie and generally enjoying it, and then almost exactly thirty minutes in (I actually checked the time and could barely believe it) I found myself getting frustrated. First off, the idea behind this is actually very interesting, but then they start the chase scenes. And they have several of these, some of them the same ones told from different perspectives and, goodness, do they get annoying. By the first one you're already bored, by the second you're frustrated, and all the rest you just want to scream. And then there's the fact that the big thing is all these points of view. Well, they don't actually do it that way. They show it form one view for the first few different versions. But then, in the last three "sets" they show them from different perspectives, and that's not even counting the ending which is no longer from anyone's view, and is played out just like a regular movie. It would have been much better if the story had delivered what the preview promised, and through each retelling had given up more of the story, so the last perspective told everything, instead of it just turning into any other movie.
Conclusion: Maybe worth a watch, once. Maybe.
Conclusion: Maybe worth a watch, once. Maybe.