Stars: Matthew Fox, Sigourney Weaver, Forest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana, William Hurt, Dennis Quaid, Edgar Ramirez, Said Taghmaoui, Leonardo Nam, Richard T. Jones

Director: Pete Travis

Summary: An attempt on the life of the U.S. president reveals a much larger conspiracy in this thriller starring Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, and Forest Whitaker. VANTAGE POINT takes the point of view of five witnesses and shows them all to reveal the truth about what happened.

A presidential assassination attempt is told from multiple points of view in Pete Travis' directorial debut, VANTAGE POINT. U.S. president Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain, to announce plans for a major global summit on terrorism. But as he stands behind the podium in front of an adoring crowd (with protesters blocked off from the stage), he is shot twice, followed shortly by a small explosion and then a massive blast. Secret Service Agents Barnes (Dennis Quaid), Taylor (Matthew Fox), and Holden (Richard T. Jones) immediately jump into action, trying to find the terrorists responsible amid all the chaos. The thriller first shows the events through the eyes of television news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver), and then the film rewinds, replaying the action from a different point of view. Each perspective reveals a few more clues, then rewinds again, taking the audience through the assassination attempt and its aftermath again.
VANTAGE POINT has the feel of the 1950 Akira Kurosawa classic RASHOMON, told with the speed of the television show 24. The all-star cast also includes Forest Whitaker (THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND), who gives another fine performance, playing an American tourist recording everything on his video camera. The rewind device--reminiscent of the Bill Murray comedy GROUNDHOG DAY--could have been gimmicky, but instead Travis and first-time screenwriter Barry L. Levy make it work, as more details are revealed with each flashback, leading to a pulse-pounding chase and surprising finale.

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Aspect Ratio:	2.40 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Director's commentary, Deleted scene, An Inside Perspective featurette, Plotting An Assassination featurette
Subtitles:	Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, Romanian, Slovene, Danish, Slovak, Hindi, Czech, Norwegian, Serbian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, English, Swedish, Polish
Year:	2008
Release Date:	August 4, 2008
Runtime:	86 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D T 46619
Keywords:	English, Point, General, Thriller, Vantage
Genre:	Thriller