Vantage Point isn't really about the audience solving the mystery first as much as watching the mystery unfold and discovering the puzzle pieces alongside the characters, video cameras and cell phones being their primary crime-solving tools. Sure, you can make guesses along the way based on some minor clues, but you'd mostly be shooting in the dark. 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. The segments just get more ludicrous from there. Vantage Point follows, from start to finish, maybe 30 minutes in time, continually cut back to noon to start fresh from someone else's point of view. The president (or so it seems) gets shot.
When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide in the hunt for the assassin. Vantage Point takes place during a major world event where the President of the United States (played by William Hurt) has assembled a massive alliance of world leaders in a new plan to fight global terrorism. The movie happens all on the afternoon of a huge outdoor press conference in Spain with the leaders in front of cheering crowds. Vantage Point manages all this whilst remaining a fairly standard Hollywood blockbuster type movie. The story of a Presidential assasination is played out from several different viewpoints, each one giving us a different point of view and a little more information as to what is going on here.
Vantage Point is mainly based on a terrorist kind of movie and I think it really shows you how severe and horrible terrorism can actually be.
Bottom Line for this film: Go see this movie if you like action flicks!
Here is the official movie trailer for Vantage Point to help you decide if this film is right for you
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