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Vantage Point Hd Mp4 Download-----------------------------------------DOWNLOAD: http://urllio.com/r2bs8 -----------------------------------------US President Henry Ashton is in Salamanca, Spain for a summit where an international treaty dealing with the fight against global terrorism will be signed and which was highly promoted by Ashton. Preceding the summit, Ashton is one of the primary speakers at a public event in Plaza Mayor when at approximately 12:20 local time an unknown sniper is able to shoot him. Amid the mass confusion and hysteria following the shooting, a massive bomb goes off in the plaza about three minutes later. The twenty minutes leading up to the shooting, the shooting and the explosion themselves, and the immediate few minutes following are seen through the perspective of a few people at the event that day. First is senior secret service agent Thomas Barnes who is on his first assignment protecting the president after taking a bullet for him less than a year earlier. Many believe Barnes is still emotionally unstable from that incident, but not Kent Taylor, his secret service colleague on this assignment, he who also got Barnes on this assignment. Second is Enrique a plain clothes Salamanca police officer who is assigned to protect Salamanca's mayor, the event moderator. Prior to the shooting, Enrique has an encounter with his girlfriend, Veronica, thoughts of who are on his mind as he spied her with another man. Third is Howard Lewis, an American tourist with a video camera, he who manages to film many of the goings-on. Despite the seriousness of the shooting and the explosion and Lewis' belief he has vital information on his camera of what's going on, he still places much of his focus on a little girl named Anna who has been separated from her mother following the explosion. Fourth is the president himself who has an interesting and surprising vantage point to the proceedings. And fifth is the operational group behind the shooting and explosion, they who show how they were able to shoot Ashton and set off the bomb. Will anyone in authority be able to piece together the information quickly both to figure out what's going on and stop the remainder of the plan in those few minutes following the explosion?The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything?First of all, let's get one thing straight - Vantage point wasn't a bad film, and I can see it being "good" to some people, but I certainly can't see it being a classic by any means.
The premise of the film was good, granted it's not the first of its kind, but I can't help but feel that the film is more a tribute to the triller genre, made by an action film addict.
The concept of multi-perspective storytelling is to craft completely unique viewpoints of the same story, each telling us something that other viewpoints couldn't.
Vantage Point completely fails to grasp this idea, and we literally have to sit through the same story over and over again, with each latter viewpoint (except for the second to last viewpoint) giving us merely a larger picture. None of the earlier perspectives matters to the story at all, and the most they offer is a tiny bit of insight into the already flat and predictable personalities of the cast.
The final "viewpoint" wasn't even a viewpoint anymore, the film makers seem to have given up and just throws everything in the air and treats us to another Die Hard movie (minus the humour and wit, and comparatively toned down action scenes).
The production value of the film is probably its only saving grace. Vantage Point is, by no means, a terrible film to watch. It tries to experiment with the novelty of non-linear storytelling and multi-perspective narration, it fails to deliver the brains, but nevertheless offers some good (but not superb) visuals. It's worth a watch on a lazy night in.
But if you really want to see some quality multi-pers storytelling, you're better off catching the episode of Malcolm in the Middle that also toyed with the same idea and achieved some genuinely good moments. That is of course if you didn't think to pick up Rushomon which Vantage Point shamelessly try to compare itself to.U.S. President Ashton (William Hurt) is in Spain for a counter terrorism summit. Before he can begin a speech, he is felled by an assassins' bullet. But is that what really happened? The gimmick of this political action-thriller is that ultimately we get several different perspectives on the events leading up to the event, the event itself, and the tumult that follows. We see things through the eyes of a Secret Service agent (Dennis Quaid), a tourist (Forest Whitaker), a Spanish cop (Eduardo Noriega), the terrorists themselves, and a man being made to assist the terrorists because they've kidnapped his brother.
This is all really quite senseless. The final third is almost wall to wall action, and it becomes so over the top, with Quaid turning into an indestructible superhero, that it eventually loses its way. The multiple stories do help to make it reasonably absorbing. Director Pete Travis and especially the top notch veteran film editor Stuart Baird do their able best to keep a hold of our attention. This thing moves so damn fast (and clocks in at just over an hour and a half), that Travis and Baird are able to distract some viewers from the more ridiculous aspects of Barry L. Levy's script. On location shooting in Mexico and slick widescreen photography help to make things watchable.
Certainly some of the actors give this everything that they've got, performing with admirably straight faces. Joining Hurt, Quaid, and Whitaker are Matthew Fox, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez, Said Taghmaoui, Zoe Saldana, James Le Gros, and Sigourney Weaver.
These filmmakers may well keep their viewers on their toes throughout, but eventually the whole thing just becomes silly. Some of the plot twists are reasonably amusing, and all in all "Vantage Point" is able to run on a fair bit of adrenaline.
Seven out of 10.Three-fourths of a terrific thriller, which in this dreary run of winter movies seemed like clear spring water to this parched traveler. The setup is so riveting, the suspense so carefully prolonged, that I didn't mind when it unraveled into lunacy near the end.Vantage Point is based on a screenplay by American screenwriter Barry Levy. Yes, the satellite was footage from Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) (2007). Both Vantage Point and Resident Evil: Extinction are films owned by Sony. a5c7b9f00b http://telegra.ph/Population-Zero-Movie-In-Hindi-Dubbed-Download-09-18 http://lunarrise.guildwork.com/forum/threads/5ba0ff4d002aa82e1a2bebf5-memories-of-michael-full-movie-in-hindi-free-download-mp4 http://telegra.ph/Kiwi-720p-Movies-09-18 http://www.nookl.com/article/334345/la-ni-a-malayalam-movie-download http://tersbenti.yolasite.com/resources/Texas-vs-Cahill-movie-download.pdf http://dayviews.com/amkeemun/526823501/ http://dayviews.com/atonpa/526823504/ https://www.causes.com/posts/4958772 https://www.causes.com/posts/4958776 https://www.causes.com/posts/4958775
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