Synopsis
The attempted assassination of the American president is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
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Cast
- Dennis QuaidThomas Barnes
- Matthew FoxKent Taylor
- Forest WhitakerHoward Lewis
- Sigourney WeaverRex Brooks
- William HurtPresident Ashton
- Ayelet ZurerVeronica
- Edgar RamírezJavier
- Eduardo NoriegaEnrique
- Saïd TaghmaouiSuarez
- Zoe SaldañaAngie Jones
Recommendations
- 83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Flat-out one of the more exciting and original gut-busters that Hollywood has produced in many a month. It's virtually all action, but the action is never mindless and it is full of marvelous surprises every step of the way. - 75
Charlotte Observer
Three-fourths of a terrific thriller, which in this dreary run of winter movies seemed like clear spring water to this parched traveler. The setup is so riveting, the suspense so carefully prolonged, that I didn't mind when it unraveled into lunacy near the end. - 63
ReelViews
It's a fast-paced motion picture that fails the "reality test" but maintains a certain intensity for its entire running length. It's entertaining in the same way that an episode of "24" is entertaining. - 63
Premiere
When Vantage Point is staying with Quaid and Fox as they hunt the suspected assassins (including the arrestingly beautiful Israeli actress Ayelet Zurer) it's a perfectly serviceable thriller with high production values and some better-than-average car chases. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
Vantage Point starts to slide off the rails when it tracks a tourist (Forest Whitaker) and his trusty camcorder; instead of Zapruder-like intrigue, the episode has him running around like an agent in a rote thriller. - 50
Chicago Tribune
With a less pedigreed international cast the whole thing would be a disaster, as opposed to a chilly new kind of disaster film. - 42
The A.V. Club
The loaded cast does what it can with the paper-thin characterizations, but Vantage Point gets hijacked early by its high-concept premise, and it quickly devolves into a by-the-numbers thriller with the numbers out of order. - 30
Village Voice
Produced by Paul Greengrass, and conceived as something of a companion film to his own "Bloody Sunday," there wasn't a moment in "Omagh" that rang false. There's not a single one in Vantage Point that rings true.
