MOVIE REVIEW

Vantage Point

A story told from the vantage point of different characters.

Photo by Krists Luhaers on Unsplash

Friday night is my movie day. Sometimes, I regret wasting the hours as the movie turns out to be damp squib — nothing worth writing about.

Tonight, Vantage Point popped up on my Netflix feed. I liked it enough to want to write about it. There are some other good movies I have watched, of which I hadn’t been able to write yet. Maybe, later.

Vantage Point is a 2008 American political action thriller film directed by Pete Travis and written by Barry L. Levy.

This fast-paced political thriller is filmed with “same event from different perspectives” structure.

The scenes are repeated again and again from the time stamp of 11:59:57 am. From one particular moment in the story, the scene pulls back to that particular time.

The story focuses on an assassination attempt on the President of the United States in Salamanca, Spain, as seen from the various vantage points of different characters.

1. The camera crew filming the event.
2. Dennis Quaid as loyal Secret Service Agent Thomas Barnes, who returns to duty after a long time (he had earlier taken a bullet for the president) to guard the president at a public…