Vantage Point: A review

Columbia pictures presents in alliance with Relativity Media and Original Film production called Vantage Point. This is an action film featuring best of award-winning actors, which will be released on February 29 at a theatre near you.

RELATIVITY MEDIA and Original Film production are associated with Columbia pictures for Vantage Point, which features a cast of award-winning actors Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Edgar Ramirez, Ayelet Zurer, with Sigourney Weaver and William Hurt. The movie is directed by Pete Travis, produced by Neal H Moritz and written by Barry L Levy.

Vantage Point is based on eight strangers having eight different points of view and trying to unchain that the fact behind the shooting attempt on the President of the United States.

This action-thriller has lots of twists and turns in it. Dennis Quaid as Thomas Barnes and Matthew Fox as Kent Taylor are two secret service agents, who were allocated to protect William Hurt as Ashton, the President of United States of America, who was in Spain, for delivering a major address on the global war on terror.

The movie takes a serious turn, when an American traveller contacts the agents, stating that he thinks he has captured the shooter on his camcorder while videotaping the event for his kids back home. This scene steals the show.

According to movie director Pete Travis, he wanted his audience to discover the idea of ‘the truth’ and the verity that ‘truth is in the eye of the beholder’. He says, “If you were to follow only one story, you wouldn’t find out the truth about what really happened. As you see each story, you see something else that you never knew before. It’s only when you get to the end that you figure out what really went on.”

Travis presents five well-known American actors and four extremely endowed international actors in Vantage Point, and there is the story, which gives its own special reward in the movie. “We have eight different people, eight ways of seeing the world, eight pieces of a puzzle. It’s a dream for a director: You can’t solve the mystery of this film without seeing the world from different people’s point of view. It’s a story that you can only tell through cinema. A movie about ways of ‘seeing’.”

Dennis Quaid, who stars in Vantage Point, says, “There’s the way we see ourselves, and there’s the way others see us,” he explains. “I play my character one way when the story is told from my point of view (POV), but when the film’s vantage point shifts to another character’s POV, I play him as that character sees him and change again for the other characters. A person isn’t seen the same way by any two people.”

Vantage Point is an extremely well made movie, and with its exclusive story, the movie has its own allure. The seriousness and the action have done a great job of capturing the viewers’ imagination. What more to say, Vantage Point has everything in it. So book your tickets now!