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February 22, 2008
At the Movies: Terrorism tale fails on every level
By DAVID GERMAIN
AP Movie Writer
AP Movie Writer
The assassination thriller “Vantage Point” might have been a triumph of form over content, technique over substance, if only there were anything worthy about its form or technique.
| VANTAGE POINT |
 Director: Pete Travis Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense violence and action, some disturbing images and brief strong language Running time: 90 minutes |
This preposterous yarn relies on a quickly strained gimmick — showing the shooting of the U.S. president over and over from different characters' viewpoints — to cover up the fact that it's less a story than a commotion of human pool balls clattering against one another in ways that defy sense and even physics.
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