Posts Tagged ‘Dennis Quaid’
Vantage Point (2008)
Vantage Point wasn’t really what I expected, and it was better than I expected. Of course, now, for you to judge how good this movie is going to be by reading this review, you’ll have to know what I was expecting. Alright, I’m confusing myself.
Spoiler here: The president is attending a summit addressing terrorism in some foreign country (I can’t remember the country), and gets assassinated. But does he…???
Surprisingly, this was one of the better action/thrillers I’ve seen so far this year. It’s told in Rashomon-style, replaying the same story with several different perspectives. William Hurt is the president, Matthew Fox (from Lost) and Dennis Quaid (from In Good Company, Traffic, and Far From Heaven) are his bodyguards. Forest Whitaker from The Last King of Scotland (which was amazing, by the way) is this tourist with a video camera. Sigourney Weaver had a small role as a newscast director. This film actually had a pretty all-star cast.
It won’t keep you guessing until the end, but there are some decent chase scenes and plenty of suspense.
