Vantage Point

8 Strangers, 8 Points of View, 1 Truth.

A perfect plan, a cruel set up. But, eventually ruined by a second of unconscious mercy, an unexpected innocent little girl.

The movie started straight to the assassination of the president and explosion of the stage. Then, it rewound back 23 minutes ago before the shooting, trying to tell the story from 8 perspectives, 8 points of view, one by one rewound. If you only follow one of the perspective, you only see a simple assassination, but you may not know the truth. So, the movie, or the time frame kept rewound several times, completed the story from different angles, different people and perspectives. The more you go, the more complicated it turned. And, slowly, like peeling an onion, you found the truth.

Barnes (Dennis Quaid) thought the sniper was from one of the windows of opposite buiding. The fact was the rifle was auto controlled by phone remote.

Howard (Forest Whitaker) thought the Spain couple was lover, Suarez was a warm stranger, Enrique (the Spain cop) was killed by the president's bodyguards. The fact were the Spain lady was threatening the Spain guy (Javier) to kidnap the president, Suarez found that Howard had screened him with his videocam, Enrique was actually killed by Javier.

Enrique thought Veronica had betrayed him for Javier. The fact was Veronica had used him to complete the mission.

Everyone thought that the president was shot by sniper ( two shoots). The fact was the president was already replaced by someone look like him, before reaching the location.

So, what you seen, might not be the truth.

As conclusion, I found this movie is very attractive. You can't afford to miss a scene in order solve the puzzle. Ohh... before I end, this film was directed by Pete Travis, and the script was written by Barry Levy.