VANTAGE POINT
Rated PG-13
Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt

Brian's Rating

I'll take my hat off to the makers of Vantage Point for their fairly original approach to storytelling, but I've got to deduct points for their execution of the concept which requires the audience to sit through multiple reviews of virtually the same events.

The tedium associated with this start, stop, and rewind sequence is palpable, and the audience with whom I shared the theatre was noticeably perturbed.

Vantage Point gives us seven different viewpoints of the fictional assassination of a U.S. President, each more complete that the one that precedes it, and each involving a different character essential to the plot.

Dennis Quaid, who could be viewed as a younger version of Clint Eastwood or an aging version of Matt Damon, plays a Secret Service agent charged with the protection of the leader of the free world and he definitely delivers the goods, especially in a car chase scene that defines the second act.

Vantage Point is good, but not great.