Review: Vantage Point
This may have been the most ridiculous film I have ever seen. And, since I've seen pretty much everything Monty Python has ever made, that is really saying something. (And, it is not saying something good.)
It is a cool concept for a film. Something terrible happens and we see it from more than one perspective. Right, I am with you. And they even went all out on casting Dennis Quaid, Sigourney Weaver, Dr. Lost...I mean, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Zoe Saldana and my favorite hispanohablante Eduardo Noriega. It should have been a good film, right? I mean, Zoe Saldana AND Spanish-speaking eye candy!
There are explosions. Dennis Quaid chases Dr. Lost through the streets of Salamanca in a cute, little European car. Dr. Lost has the worst Gringo accent when he speaks Spanish. (Oh, and the rubbish he says. My God.) It hurt. Forest Whitaker saves a little girl from inevitable and painful death (which, by the way, I felt was the punch line in a Lars Von Trier kind of way. This was also painful.) El Guapo looks guapo even when he is being rundown by the Secret Service and, in the end, Dennis Quaid saves the day. I painted my nails during the last half of this film because I had to do something to keep from scoffing at the screen. (There were some continuity errors as well, like why is Forest Whitaker agreeing with El Guapo in one scene and the shocked, shocked! to be running from a bomb in the next?)
I should have listened to Media Zombie, but I didn't. This film was punishment. Boo.
