{"id":28,"date":"2008-03-05T09:59:36","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T08:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/28\/vantage-point"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:44:23","slug":"vantage-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/28\/vantage-point","title":{"rendered":"Vantage Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

IMDb<\/a><\/p>\n

I went to the theatre yesterday.<\/p>\n

What’s going on?<\/em><\/p>\n

The president of the US visits a summit in Salamanca, Spain. First he is shot and then a bomb explodes. We see the same events from 8 different POVs. 8 different people that are either directly or indirectly involved in the events.<\/p>\n

I am often applying double standards. Personally I believe most people do that whether they admit it to themselves nor not.<\/p>\n

If I like a movie I can turn a blind eye to (smaller) weaknesses. If I don’t like it, then this weaknesses are included in the judgement.<\/p>\n

Spoilers follow!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The same happened to Vantage Point<\/em>. During a great deal of the movie I felt well entertained. But the car chase and the end blew it for me.<\/p>\n

1)
\nThe characters of Dennis Quaid (Dragonheart<\/em>) and Matthew Fox (Lost<\/em>) are racing through the city of Salamanca. Dennis drives a compact car and gets a full hit by another car. Result: Some dents in the car, the chase goes on. Then he has to drive on a sidewalk and when it ends he has to break through two parking cars with little to no space between them. Result: Scratches on the bumper. The he gets a full hit by a track which smashes him into the corner of a house. Result: The car is totally destroyed, Dennis has a scratch. Of course he continues on foot and when Fox has a (in comparison) minor crash he is badly wounded and bleeds to death.<\/p>\n

2)
\nThe terrorists have shot several people and blown up a countless number of spectators. But thei evil plan fails because the bad terrorist avoids to hit a little girl on the middle of the street instead of running her over. And of course all main characters meet on exactly the spot where the crash happened.<\/p>\n

Nothing against a happy end, but aren’t there smarter solutions? Has it to be that dumb?<\/p>\n

And then the minors that I usually wouldn’t mind:<\/p>\n

3)
\nThe old, corpulent Forrest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland<\/em>) follows the Secret Service agents on foot with a video camera. And he has practically no problems to keep their pace. To be believable, they should have taken Jackie Chan for this – he even would have fulfilled the clich\u00e9 of the japanese camera tourist (I know that JC is no japanese).<\/p>\n

4)
\nAre they really trying to tell me that some of the Secret Service men don’t know that they are currently guarding a fake president?<\/p>\n

I had the same problem with The Kingdom<\/em>. The movie was ok in general, until one of Foxx’s men was kidnapped and they started this stupid rescue mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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