It's a politically charged thriller about terrorism in the post 9/11 world featuring the most ridiculous terrorist attack ever unveiled on screen. Every season of "24" looks completely realistic now. The plot in Airplane 2 was more plausible. To refresh your memory, Airplane 2 featured Sonny Bono smuggling a bomb (that he purchased in the airport gift shop) onto the inaugural commercial Space Shuttle flight to our Moonabse. That's how many holes there are in Vantage Point, which is to say nothing about the least plausible resolution I could imagine.
The hook to the movie is that it's told through multiple perspectives so you get the whole story. Sadly, all this hook serves is to withhold information from the audience in order to create suspense. Sadly, the best suspense is created when the audience has information the protagonists lack. Being in the audience thinking "Don't go in the basement! The bomb is in the basement!" is suspenseful. Having a character say "I'm not going in that basement, and I'm not going to explain why" is stupid. The hook's real purpose is to allow the filmmakers to replay the events of the same 30 minute period over 7 times, so that they don't ever have to explain the impossible genesis and planning of their ludicrous plot.
The highlight (for me, at least) is about 30 minutes into the film, when Dennis Quaid is seen top less from the back, putting on his shirt. If you squint really hard, there's a split second where you can see his torso in the reflection of the window he's facing.
What a crappy movie.
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