the start of vantage point be so good that it actually get my hope up a i think i be go to be in for a good action thriller . it too bad that after the assassination of the president ( william hurt ) show through the scope of a cnn type cable news broadcast ( gnn instead of a c it have a g. get it . cnn . gnn . ) the story be pretty much over and so they add some action scene and car chase because theyre all out of idea . sigourney weaver be very good in this five minute open scene that throw u directly into the fire without any set up once so ever . it just bam . even though we know what come which be routine throughout the film it still a very effective start . then and we get the same thing play back to u over and over again from a large quantity of people perspective . instead of become interest it become boring and trivial . it no longer effective . we have see it all and we become increasingly more impatient . even though everything be always not what it seem and and everyone be always look at same thing and see something different we know where the film be go and but it drag in get there . the trailer give away one of the huge plot twist in the film ( i think there be suppose to be another and but that could also be see from a mile away . think rogue . cliché . you bet . ) . the president use a double and it be he who be shoot . do the double die . we will never know . i think the writer or director of the film forget because of so many flashback . what do it want to do . they know they want to show the assassination of the president through the eye of many and but a the plot expand to such wide extremes it just become muddle in it own fecal matter . eventually the film be no longer about perspective and but about car chase and shootout . this be where the plot hole come roar in one after another and the overly do clichés continue . dennis quaid give one of the bad acting performance of this millennium along with the guy from lose and who have such a big secret and both he and the writer can not wait to tell you . they hint at it long enough to actually make you wonder if theyre stupid enough to go through with it and so you may doubt what theyre go to do and because it set up so poorly . you think theyre try to trick you and but trust your instinct . expect terrible clichés and you will know exactly where the film be head . the dialogue be horrendous . the coincidence be through the roof . the predictability start in the trailer . i be laugh at it and literally and laugh at it terrible execution . there be no substance to this once so ever . it like they get to a point be they be do with all the flashback and say and let have a 10 minute car chase and a bunch of shootout . i love when the guy from lose turn around after he carry the president off the stage and look at quaid and say find that shooter . it just so laughable . the car chase be terrible . for some inexplicit reason a little girl that forest whitaker take a fond liking to be run through a highway that for some odd reason isn not close off during or after such an incredible event . an ambulance truck drive by terrorist be fly down the highway at her a she stand in the middle of the road screaming for about 30 second . it be like austin power where they make fun of movie where they have moron stand in the road scream for a long time instead of steep back off the road and avoid the oncoming car . a the little girl stand there scream and coincidentally and the driver be preoccupy and not look at the road ( yes and that cliché ) . when he turn around and he see the girl in the street so he flip the truck instead of kill another innocent life . for some reason he try to avoid her . this guy be responsible for kill a lot of people and but now he quickly grow a heart . then forest do something that be completely shock . not . just another cliché that have be do before . there just nothing here to get excite about . it start off good then continually get bad and bad and by the end you will find yourself watch some of the bad scene in film history . the beauty of american arrogance be that they can not imagine a world where theyre not a step ahead . interestingly enough this quote come out of this film and interestingly enough the filmmaker add to that arrogance of always be a step a head . look who live and look who die when some of the people who do not look like theyre go to live end up living . more pro american and anti anyone else clichés . vantage point be one of the most ridiculous film youre ever go to come across . especially and when youre watch dennis quaid turn into superman a he brush off bullet and or when he jump out of a car that be t bone into a building with him get crush in between the car and an 18 wheeler that weigh about 10 ton . he simply jump out of the car and unscathed and and brush off his shoulder . that not a joke . that actually what he do . this be more effective a a comedy and what make it so funny be that the filmmaker take it so seriously . this film be a joke . another stinker for 2008 for forest whitaker to add to the heap of crap after his great performance in the last king of scotland and which seem decade ago . now he look like a below average actor and which he might be .