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Roller coaster ride is pretty much like this film! What an incredible thriller! VANTAGE POINT is… Wow! I am so glad something as good as this comes out this season where most other movies are usually bad or just okay. This movie will hold close you til the end conclusion, its grip gets tighter by the minute but… you’ll be having so much fun because of it. I’m proud to say that this is the first excellent action thriller movie of the year. There are many ways of watching movies but there is only one true VANTAGE POINT. Awesome!

This is the story of the assassination of the President of the United States during the summit in Spain, the event seen through the eyes of different perspectives: The bad guys, the tourist with the camera, the secret service, the local cop, and the President himself. Just when you thought you had it all figured out, it will make you guess again. A counter-terrorist movie presented in a puzzle setting with all its separate pieces begging for you to put them together.

VANTAGE POINT has the power to leave you breathless. It takes you on a car chase, scenes of people running from every direction, bombs exploding left and right, skills throw their punches and jabs. I cannot tell you enough how awesome this movie is. It uses the element that’s popular in movies lately where you combine a bunch different separate stories and make them cross paths with each other.
It’s like a better version of Crash, Babel, or Run Lola Run.

VANTAGE POINT will make Jack Bauer from TV’s 24 say, “Why didn’t I think of that?!”
This is probably one of Dennis Quaid’s best movies. All the cast are perfect in their roles. You cannot go wrong when you have Oscar folks like Forest Whitaker, William Hurt and Signourney Weaver in the house.
Even the foreign actors who were hired to be the bad guys did very well.

I love the action sequences. The stunt-work deserves an applause and the way the camera captures the intensity of every moment is brilliant. It makes a simple scene look like it could stop your heart from beating and then start it up again in time for whatever amazing thing that’s going to happen next.
Brave to the visuals! Fast-paced and believable.
Adrenaline rush choreography.

Storywise, I’m floored at how writer Barry Levy spun such a tangled web that’s very intriguing. We’re looking at various points of views, at first you’d be impressed by it, after a while you get a little impatient because you wonder what the hell is going on, but then you like how the movie doesn’t reveal too much for you yet until it’s time for the answers to reveal themselves. This could’ve turned out to be a movie that’s longer and full of drama but I’m glad once in a while you get people who decide to make a movie just for the fun of it.
I’d watch this movie over and over again. That’s how much it’s left an impression on me.

VANTAGE POINT should’ve been released in the summer. A remarkable film indeed.

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