Vantage Point (Blu-ray)

I personally love a film that makes me think and challenges my intellect, so when Vantage Point arrived on the scene and was supposedly "a slick, explosive thriller that builds to an exciting climax" (according to Heat magazine) I was more than intrigued. The all star cast only added to my interest in the film, with Matthew Fox (Lost), Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) and Sigourney Weaver all making an appearance. Did Vantage Point live up to my expectations and prove to be a captivating thriller? If I were to tell you Vantage Point is based around a plot to assassinate the President of the United States, you might rightly think ...

Eye witnesses are notoriously poor evidence in a trial. Ten people could see an explosion and each one of them could provide a different description. The testimony is so poor at times that the criminal justice service uses the witness only as a way to get a warrant and look for some real tangible evidence. If different people see an event in different ways what is the truth? You can call someone a liar to their face, but if they truly believe they saw what they saw is that not just another truth? The facts are that the real events will be an amalgamation of everyone's experience filtered through a network of circumstantial evidence. Things will never be what they ...

It is a momentous day in Spanish history, after a series of horrific terrorist attacks around the country United States President Ashton (William Hurt) arrives to help launch a summit. The event is being watched around the world, the effects of the summit will cause a more united peace. Called into duty to defend the President are Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Lost's Matthew Fox). No sooner has Ashton taken to the stage, than Barnes' senses go into overtime; but this is not enough as Ashton is shot once in the chest, once in the face. But this is not the end, having shot the President the same terrorists set of a series of explosions around the city. The ...