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(1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 31% Rotten Page   1   "Vantage Point prefers to stick with the familiar, so that it ends up, bizarrely enough, affirming rather than challenging the viewer's prejudices."   musicOMH.com   Anton Bitel B- "The fact that the screenplay refrains from smug political commentary and instead focuses on action and mystery enhances the experience."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 2.5/5 "We view this event from every possible point of view except a logical -- or entertaining -- one."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron C "It's a marginally successful attempt to flare up the senses through shocking repetition, but this is Moritz after all, so if you must go, leave your brain at home and sneak in a cocktail to help wash down the nonsense."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf A- "What Travis has done is nothing short of create a new kind of American action film that feels European in the same way that William Friedkin's "French Connection" did."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "As Vantage Point becomes increasingly busy with personal betrayals and redemptions, the ostensible politics, reductive to begin with, fall by the wayside."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3.5/4 "The exhilarating car chase that closes the movie is alone worth the price of admission..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "Moderately entertaining for the first hour and then for the last half hour goes up in flames."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "Less would have definitely been more in this case; if viewers squint their eyes hard enough, they might just be able to locate a kitchen sink lurking somewhere in the background."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B+ "A lot of vigorous actors doing vigorous work in the service of a crafty, fast-moving, well-told story."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B "It's easy to pick apart an action movie. It's much harder to produce one this clever, fast-paced and involving."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov D+ "The cascade of coincidences and logical lapses drains it of excitement and leaves it seeming overwhelmingly ridiculous."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 2/5 "Starts off well but then tries to replicate the fast-paced frenzy of The Bourne Ultimatum with an improbable car chase."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "Vantage Point offers a modicum of entertainment but it requires viewers to react more forcefully from the gut than the mind. It's viscerally effective but lobotomized."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/5 "Vantage Point's summed up by its name; from some angles, it looks like an above-average studio thriller, but from others it falls out of sight fast."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 3.5/4 "Smart escapist thrillers are a dying breed but this is one of the good ones."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 1/4 "It's mind-numbingly tedious, perhaps because the rhythm, the plot, even the seemingly indestructible veteran secret service agent Barnes seem lifted wholesale from any random episode of 24."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 1.5/4 "Choppy, point-of-view twisting thriller that never rises above its gimmickry."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 3.5/5 "Vantage Point takes a pretty high concept, dribbles a bunch of red herrings all over it, and makes things go boom, reaping better yields than the average TV show."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery C- "A high caliber international cast, an Irish television director and a green screenwriter with a marketable ad concept all add up to one big slice of cheese with Vantage Point, a movie that cannot even stay the course with its own story telling devi"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2/4 "At a certain point its sheer can-you-top-this excess takes over, credibility flies out the window and there's no reason to continue paying attention."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 1.5/4 "Trying, monotonous, and not anywhere near as relevant or clever as it imagines itself to be, Vantage Point proves once again that while it's easy to rely on a gimmick, it's usually not the best idea to trust it."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik "It's insane, and preposterous, yet not unentertaining, in its own uniquely goofy and ridiculous way."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1/4 "Now I know how Bill Murray felt in Groundhog Day."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan C "A gimmicky thriller without much of a gimmick or many thrills, "Vantage Point" suffers, too, from being out of synch with its time."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow D "A monument to cinematic suckiness."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 3/5 "A curta duração e o ritmo constantemente frenético do filme mantêm o espectador atento e interessado, mesmo que o objeto de tanta atenção não faça muito sentido em retrospecto."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1.5/5 "[...] one would expect events to be gradually fleshed out until the mystery behind the attack is finally revealed, just in time for a bodacious climax, right? Yeah."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2/5 "It starts off strong but quickly becomes so contrived and repetitive that by the time it finally lumbers to its deeply unsatisfying and ludicrously melodramatic finale, you feel like an idiot for having wasted your time watching it"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 2.5/5 "There's an interesting idea here, showing a major political event from various perspectives until we finally get to the real story. The problem is that the real story is rather contrived."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline D+ "The most unintentionally hilarious film so far this year."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux C+ "It doesn't have much more going for it than the rewind gimmick, a very talented cast of actors, and some pretty good action sequences."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 3/4 "a ripping good yarn"   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 7/10 "Suspenseful, yes - but it's all too far-fetched to matter much."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 4/10 "Decent actors wasted; impossible, idiotic plot twists; an unimaginative shooting style; an okay but unspectacular bit of action. Yep, it's a February movie all right."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 35) of 35 OFCS Rating: 31% Rotten Page   1