IMDb RATING
6.6/10
155K
YOUR RATING
The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 2 nominations
Edgar Ramírez
- Javier
- (as Edgar Ramirez)
Zoe Saldana
- Angie Jones
- (as Zoë Saldana)
Alicia Jaziz
- Anna
- (as Alicia Jaziz Zapien)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the original script, the tourist was a Russian named Lewicki. When Forest Whitaker auditioned for a different role, Pete Travis was so impressed that he rewrote the tourist as an American and offered the role to him.
- GoofsWhen the blue Astra crashes between two parked cars, and when it crashes into the truck, it's going fast enough that the front and side airbags should have deployed.
Featured review
Dennis Quaid and William Hurt star in this action thriller with a twist (or better yet, gimmick): the events leading up to the attempted assassination of an American president who is visiting Spain are told from several individuals' points of view. These include Quaid as a Secret Service agent, Hurt as the president, Forest Whittaker as a camcorder-wielding tourist and Edgar Ramirez (a Javier Bardem lookalike) as a Spanish cop. Bruce McGill is the president's hawkish adviser. VANTAGE POINT is fine if you can take the constant rewinding of events to show them from each character's perspective. Personally, I would have preferred fewer rewinds. For my money, Whitaker's overly excited tourist walks away with the movie.
- ctomvelu-1
- Jan 17, 2009
- Permalink
Details
Box office
- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $72,266,306
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $22,874,936
- Feb 24, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $152,039,882
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- 2.39 : 1
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content