4 stars****
I’m very pleased I chose to go and see Vantage Point. It was an outstanding entertaining movie.
Essentially we saw the film from various people’s perspective’s in ten minute slots with each one just giving us a little more information over the last. Only when we saw each person’s point of view were we able to piece together what actually happened.
Barry Levy completed a very difficult task with this script writing and he deserves a gold medal for his dedicated result. This is a very different slant in movie entertainment and is rarely used. Run Loa Run used this technique with pure excellence as well.
I like a movie to be entertaining; if it’s not entertaining in a purely visual manner then it needs to stretch my brain. This film achieved both. I really can’t stand wasting my time watching movies with very little script, plot or story, just being held together (if at all) by large special effects every nineteen minutes and seventeen seconds. I know that I won’t be entertained or even have to think. Some formula script writing in films lack any real glue and are just to show off a star actor who has just cost the production company $10 million or more.
Vantage Point was interesting throughout and only fails to get the 5 start award because the ending did leave a little much to believe when the revitalized bodyguard suddenly saved his president by just being in the right place at the right time with very little verification of how he got there. That aside, it is a very good movie and one I’ll rent on DVD at some time in the future as I expect I’ll see more the second time I watch it.
The timing didn’t help me to see the second film that I wanted to experience – Bank Job, so I’m hopeful it will hold over to next week. However, there was a second film – Shutter that did fit timings. I left after 30 minutes partly because Vantage Point had been so good that it was difficult for anything to follow it successfully. It started to weave a story that just didn’t interest me so I left early. I’m sorry if it was a really good film but it didn’t keep me needing to stay.
That proves why we all have personal tastes and just because I like one film doesn’t mean you will. However, the writing skills of Vantage Point started me thinking and it kept me highly entertained.
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May 1st, 2008 at 12:31 am
I must rememebr to go and see Bank Job – put it in my diary.