Vantage Point (2008)
6/10
Way too stretched, but still somewhat entertaining
21 July 2009
The tag-line promises that we will see 8 different people's perspective of the event - an assassination attempt on the president of the USA. However, this is not what is delivered in the film. We see a somewhat shortened version of the 23 minutes four times, but that's just the first hour.

After that, the movie goes on and during the next, continuous hour, shows us "who did it and how". There's extortion, there's betrayal... and there's way too much lucky chance for my taste. To believe that all those lucky moments, which only had few seconds to occur, could actually occur, doesn't work for me. I like stories that don't contain that much "luck".

Thinking who did it and what was the role of each person was still quite entertaining, but once again, there's the problem with too many lucky moments or "twists". Worth watching, although "Sentinel" seemed a bit better to me.
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