It started off very good but the flashbacks you get tired of real quick. There was really not a story-war on terror-but what else.
The little girl though saving the day inadvertently-corny!!!!
Acting was good and I loved the car chase scene.
Not bad thriller-that kept you guessing.
5 out of 10.
they weren't flashbacks, the were showing the same events from a few different view points, hence the name Vantage Point.
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Yeah I agree, the first one was good, surprising and you think yeah ok nice idea.
The second one, i.e going onto Forrest Whittakers Scene, was ok too.
But it should have stayed at that.
It got very irritating after that.
Maybe one more to finish it off, but not then done another three or so for unimportant characters that you didn't even know existed.
That was the whole POINT of the movie! I will never understand how people cannot appreciate it.
It didn't just reshow the SAME thing. It showed it from several different people's perspectives. SOME of the perspectives weren't even in the same place!
Man, it's sad when a good movie finally comes out and people just don't appreciate it.
There was nothing special about the different vantage points. Most movies tell the same story from different points-of-view. This movie just made a gimmick out of it by grouping each character's specific scenes together. Didn't add anything to the movie. The different vantage points had nothing to do with the actual story. This movie could simply be re-edited into a more standard format and it wouldn't change anything. It didn't add any substance.
Wow, you sure sound like a angry person. Stop repeating the same thing over and over, it makes you look desperate. Or do you take pleasure in hating random movies/things?
I mostly liked the movie, seen it some time ago tho, but I'll gladly rewatch it in a couple of years, hopefully with some friends this time.
Stop repeating the same thing over and over, it makes you look desperate.
Couldn't have put it better myself - far too many 'vantage points'. Was like a joke you've heard someone tell eight times. By the end, the most annoying thing was the clock ticking over midday. Again!!!!!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhh!!
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You could say the same thing about "Memento"
shareThe point of the movie was to show different perspectives of the same thing and it was done very well. There may have been a few things that were hard to understand but all in all it was a good movie.
sharehe point of the movie was to show different perspectives of the same thing and it was done very well. There may have been a few things that were hard to understand but all in all it was a good movie.
I got tired of them real quick too, I think the show would have been better if they cut it to be a normal movie rather than trying to get fancy with all the flashback bits. If they had had one more flash I would prob have stopped watching it there lol
Yeah, the show definitely had some high points, I like the action but I'm really frustrated with the fact that there seemed to be no point to what was happening. Like what the F was the deal with Matthew Fox's character, why did he do it?
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It is true. They didn't really explain why Mathew Fox's character did it. I assume for alot of money. That seems to be the thing. The first time I saw it the flashbacks were bothering me but I watched it again knowing the point was to show different perspectives and I liked it better. Not the best movie but still good.
shareAt first the flashbacks only gradually revealing, bit by bit, what was going on was rather intriguing. But by the point that Dennis Quaid looks into a TV monitor with your typical Charlton Heston "Oh My God!" reaction, and they cut away to yet another flashback before showing us what he saw, I began to feel they were just dragging things out by stalling on showing us the big reveal.
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I didn't mind the different vantage points. The action was good. The mystery of trying to figure out what was going on was entertaining. But, the ending was corny.
Why would a mastermind terrorist who spent the whole movie shooting and killing strangers and setting off bombs in crowded public spaces risking, injuring and killing men, women and children, all of a sudden crash his getaway ambulance to avoid hitting a little girl? All of a sudden he is overcome with morality and humanity? Stupid.
And what kind of mother did that little girl have? That little girl spent half the movie running in and out of traffic on the interstate.
Found most of the vantage points interesting, each adding more information as to what had happened. I did think, however, that the podium bomb went off too quickly in one of the earlier repeats.
Didn't care for the car chase, too unrealistic. Realistically the cars would have been caught up in traffic or wrecked within seconds. I guess over the top movie car chases are a fantasy people like to buy into. Toward the end I thought Barnes should have just floored it, pass Taylor's car and just pull in front of it and block it. He seemed to be able to do just about anything else.
Also, even with special forces training, a single shooter does not make it past layers of security to the President.
Now an overweight guy running dodging and jumping to snatch a little girl before she gets hit by a speeding vehicle just about to hit her -- that I can buy.