Vantage Point (2008)

A so-so political thriller that’s built around an interesting idea. We see the events leading up to (and away from) an assassination attempt on the US president at an engagement in Salamanca, Spain. The film adopts various perspectives, and we see the same action played out again and again from the "vantage point" of different characters.

Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver all feature, but there’s too little character development and too little dialogue for us to get much of a sense of any of them. Weaver in particular is underused, as if she only had a day available for filming and did it as a favour to the director (Pete Travis). 

I was expecting a mind-bending plot twist that never arrived, and overall it’s oddly unsatisfying.