8 Strangers. 8 Points of View. 1 Truth.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez, Said Tagmaoui, Ayelet Zurer, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt |
Director |
Pete Travis |
Screenplay | Barry L. Levy |
Music | Atli Övarsson |
Cinematography | Amir Mokri |
Editing | Stuart Baird, Sigvaldi J. Kárason, Valdis Óskarsdóttir |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Soundtrack | Available |
Made in | 2008 |
Produced by | Original Film, Relativity Media |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large
Genre | Suspense, thriller, action |
Language | Mild, infrequent |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None |
Violence | Strong action and psychological violence, sustained but not bloody, gory or graphic. |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | None |
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Violence |
Blood / Gore / Gross |
Guns / Weapons |
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Alcohol / Drugs |
Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
Music (Scary/Tense) |
Music (Inappropriate) |
Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 10 | |
Die Burger Mariana Malan | 10 | |
Cape Times Kenneth Turan | 5 | |
iAfrica.com Nils van der Linden Has a lot of potential, but the end result is something of a disappointment. | 10 | |
The Citizen David Jenkin In some regards, Vantage Point is a bit of a disappointment. | 12 | |
24.com Natalie Sineke Although Vantage Point should be commended for making active viewers out of the audience, its technique is tacky, there are several plot holes and with every re-tell there's a twist. | 5 | |
BBC Paul Arendt Vantage Point is an average thriller built on a neat gimmick. | 10 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli Vantage Point offers a modicum of entertainment but it requires viewers to react more forcefully from the gut than the mind. It's viscerally effective but lobotomized. | 13 | |
Rolling Stone Peter Travers By the end, Vantage Point is such a unholy mess of drooling sentiment and sloppy loose ends that you’ll hate yourself for being suckered in. | 8 | |
ScreenIt Although certainly not novel in terms of plot or storytelling structure, and suffering from a few issues that probably could and easily should have been remedied with a few script tweaks, the film moderately succeeds in terms of what it's trying to be and achieve. | 11 | |
Metacritic.com 32 critics | 8 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 135 critics | 10 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Premise is undermined by fractured storytelling and wooden performances. | 7 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 12010 Netizens A very engaging action film. | 13 | |
Average .. 47% | 9 |