Vantage Point was one of the most panned films of the year.
Just look at Empire, the UK’s most hallowed movie review magazine.
The folks over there gave the picture a feeble 3 stars.
But could they be wrong? Could the old order be out of touch with what constitutes quality entertainment?
Well, I think so. This is fun filled filmmaking at its best. Give it a go…
u should do a piggy piggy snack snack on walkers sensations theyre so lush or kettle crisps or ben and jerry all fatening but so nice !
I do also agree that Vantage Point was vastly underrated by most critics and after watching it I was left dazed and confused…
The movie while it does pay off more than satisfactorily in the end, the only things I can see wrong with it is it doesn’t end in a massive crescendo and part of the plot is a little, and I do mean a little, far fetched but not entirely impossible. If this movie requires a pan, then allot of the critically acclaimed movies deserve an entire cook set then.
I couldn’t agree more with your appraisal if I wrote it, and for a minute I thought I might have because you echoed the arguments I gave for my friends to see it and because of all the panning I couldn’t even get them to watch it for free.
Just wait until they forget what this movie is though… they will see it, oh yes my friends, they will see it!
A friend of mine asked me to watch Vantage Point with him because he was certain that I’d hate it and wanted to debate its merits with me… Our debate has yet to happen but his assumption was quite right. In my humble opinion this film was - in the words of Gene Wilder “doo doo”. The opening scene was conspicuously under-researched - as if they were using the “Control Room For Dummies” as primary reference material. Also our girl Sigourney came across with all the intensity of a bag of towels. The rather generic premise was delivered with an original device but then this was also where the film really fell down. Cycling through the different VANTAGE POINTS began to feel like a chore pretty early on and ultimately created the largest problem in the film…lack of character development. This made everyone, including Dennis Quaids somewhat wooden protagonist very hard to care about thus robbing the film of the most important element for any suspense driven film, a sense of gravity. If I had stars to give Vantage Point would only get 2 of em.
Lol. Spence - agreed it wasn’t the most intellectually demanding film. But I didn’t judge it on that criteria. I was in the right frame of mind for some light entertainment, and Vantage Point truly delivered on that note.
This movie was great!!
I totally agree with you.
Cheers !!