Vantage Point (2008)

While in attendance at a global terrorism summit in Spain, President Ashton (William Hurt) is assassinated. Events leading up to and after the president's shooting are told and retold through several different perspectives.

Secret Service Agents Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are assigned to protect him. Barnes is seeing his first action in six-months since taking a bullet for the President.

Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) is an American father video-taping the event and may have inadvertently caught a glimpse of the shooter.

Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver) is a GNN producer. She has 10 television cameras in and around the plaza where the summit is located. Her reporter, Angie (Zoe Saldana) is on the scene

Javier, Veronica, Enrique, and Suarez are terrorists. Oops!! Spilled the beans!

Vantage Point is a semi-intelligent thriller that remains mostly unrealized. With a paper thin script, the movie never develops enough tension to pay off. Characters are under-developed. The attempts at subplots are pathetic. Save for an intense car chase that leads to massive collateral damage, there isn't much here.

However, clocking in at just over 90 minutes, Vantage Point isn't that bad. It gets in, entertains, and gets out.