Review – Vantage Point

Though several critics compared this to Rashomon, that isn’t exactly correct. We don’t really get different, subjective perspectives on a crime as much as we get the same story told over and over from different objective angles, following different characters. And each time the story is told, we get a bit more of it until at last the tale is complete. The assassination conspiracy stuff is entertaining, particularly the “lone gunman” joke at the end. The effects were good, competent without drawing undue attention to themselves. And the Hollywood stars fit fairly well into the whole ensemble cast thing. On the other hand, it featured more car chasing than was strictly necessary, and some of the subplots were too contrived. Overall this made for good summer DVD junk food. Mildly amusing