Congratulations! You've successfully intersected storylines! But what was the point? And did it add to the story at all?
Well, my answers would be no point and what story? Am I the only one that's sick of the fad of throwing a potpourri of characters into a story that magically run into each other? Alejandro González Iñárritu has based his entire filmography on this film style but the difference is he has done it well and with interesting characters with relatable problems. Vantage Point's characters are a failure in every way imaginable.
I can't believe the amount of A-list actors who signed on for this project. Sigourney Weaver's role is a cameo at best and, SPOILER AHEAD, **Matthew Fox isn't the least bit believable as an antagonist**. Forrest Whitacker has a very strange role as a camera-toting tourist turned hero. But of course he makes the most of it. Dennis Quaid, however, is in all his action glory as a burned-out former secret service hero back on rotation again a year after taking a bullet for the President. And William Hurt as president? The script didn't matter. That's his kind of role, baby. The car chases were a highlight for me. Pete Travis definitely knows how to handle action film direction. It's just too bad he didn't have much of a script to work with.
Overall, there were too many coincidences for my taste and I felt gipped by what I felt was a completely pat ending.
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