March 15, 2008
Everyone has probably already seen this movie so there is no need to explain anything… ever… again. To my credit, I was the one who spotted Robert Patrick, I was hoping he would morph into the terminator and kill her. I know this film must be a comedy. I think Demi Moore was taking the role seriously though, her stripteasing was pretty frightening like something you might see in the Tate Modern under “interpretive dance”.
March 10, 2008
March 8, 2008
If you want to see this movie then see this movie then read this. Easy as pie not pi, as that is a stupid number that I don’t understand the meaning of.
Seen the movie/not going to? Vidi this…
Rating: 4/10
First off I have taken the liberty of reclassifying this film from a 12A to a C, where C stands for Cletus.
The great thing about this movie is anyone will understand it. This is due to part of the fim being replayed 118 times for each “vantage point” of the characters. The fact the movie completely misses how to correctly intertwine character’s individual stories is another matter which could be discussed later under the heading “wtf?”.
Now I don’t want to put anyone off this movie, I’d feel bad. It’s not the worst movie ever made and it held my attention all the way apart from the car chase which got a bit silly when the guy in the crappy blue car became the terminator and just couldn’t be shook off.
The film started off almost interesting became easy on the eyes and ended ridiculously cheesy, it made me laugh but also have the urge to say “SOMEBODY ASSASSINATE BEN AFFLECK!” Why? Because the climax of the film was very “Armageddon” – you know that retarded scene where Bruce Willis shouts out “I love you!” to Ben Affleck. Yeah I know, Ben Affleck. It’s just awful and wrong on so many cinematic levels . It’s like they were going for emotional but then everyone in the production team had synchronised strokes and came up with the brain damaged idea that the best way of showing affection between two heterosexual unrelated macho males was a last minute “I love you!”. Ever since I saw that movie, I have hated Ben Affleck (okay maybe ever since that advert he made about his hair). Even though it was Willis who shouted “I love you!”, he seems to have gotten away scot free. It’s Ben Affleck who needs to be assassinated, not the President of the USA.
Ahh, I went completely off topic. Where was I, oh yeah this movie made me think, “ahh what clever terrorists!”. I actually wanted them to at least get away with the president because of admiration of their cool gadgets and suave Oceans 11-esque scheming. I mainly felt this way because this movie does not focus on good v.s evil. Everyone knows terrorists are dickheads, that’s not the point.
Like the title suggests it delivers different individual vantage points. They are not just bad guys and good guys, they are just guys and you see why they do things and not the greater picture. There is no shoving of obvious rights and wrongs down your throat. It leaves you free to make up your mind on everyone as no one’s character is explored in depth, just hinted at.
Because of the film’s intention to showcase individuals and dampen down the mankyness of terrorists, the terrorists are not your stereotypical hollywood terrorists. They are all young and not from token Iraq. They are therefore not dressed in silly clothes. Terrorists you do not want to sympathise with need to be dressed in religious freaky clothes and mutilated like that fella with the hook. They need long beards and dubious taches. I definitely think this film was missing more than a few hysterical “JIHAAAAAAD’s!”. Also missing was a scene of many terrorists listening to twangy music. Having said that Token Terrorist Actor with token terrorist accent was in the movie. I don’t know his name but he always plays a terrorist. I wonder if he has problems with airport customs. You know how people are always going up to actors/actresses in Eastenders/Friends etc and calling them by their character names or asking how Joey is? I wonder if Token Terrorist Actor gets people screaming and running away from him when he’s at the queue in the bank or mcdonalds?
Vantage Point also tries to create a twist in the tale which would have been great if it had not been obvious from 10 minutes in. You might not pick this up if you are someone who is crap at spotting irrelevant quotes e.g. Why would a character say that? BECAUSE THEY’RE EFFIN EVIL, MOFO! I made a new poster for this movie, here it is…
Who is pretending to be good but really evil? Well it aint gonna be the president, it aint gonna be no ethnic character (think of the backlash!) It aint gonna be the guy who seems screwed up and on the edge. It’s gonna be the hotty, isn’t it? Oooh real twist! How could the american white boy BE THE BADDY! THIS MOVIE IS SO DEEP AND COMPLEX, GIVE IT AN OSCAR!
I’m being a bit harsh really. It’s just the ending that suffers, this stupid kid runs in the middle of the road and these terrorists – who have shot people at point blank range and blown up loads of innocent citizens suddenly become all moral and are affected by the innocence of the child and try to swerve to avoid hitting her. It all goes slow motion and everyone from EVERY VANTAGE POINT (ooh aren’t they smart, these writers) suddenly focuses on the kid and thinks, oh man, INNOCENCE, SWEET INNOCENCE DOESNT BELONG HERE! The message of unity amidst conflict is sickeningly cheesy and simplistic. In reality, the terrorists had the president of the USA in their ambulance, they would have run that dumbass kid right over. Hell, I would have gone out of my way to mow down the little bugger.
The final message is that the government lie to the people and none of us lay people know how complex terrorist issues are. I accepted this movie because it didnt shove anything down your throat and wasn’t black or white but I dislike this movie because it is just too dumb and cheese coated for anyone with an IQ over 110.
