Chris Clazie

Yes,I read the reviews when this opened last week in the UK,and I was very wary when my son suggested seeing it,after all I thought I would be seeing the same ten minutes all the way through,but,guess what.It's much more original then that.OK,it opens at exactly the same spot each time,but you see it from different perspectives and angles each time.You get to see more than one dimensional characters involved in something that jumps out of the blue and involves them,and each time a new twist or clue comes along to keep you interested,and the last 15/20 minutes is genuine on the edge of your seat stuff.Oscars have been handed out this year to supposedly very good movies that left me cold when I saw them,Vantage Point is surprisingly good and extremely entertaining.Acting is good throughout especially the great Dennis Quaid,William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver.Yes,I know that the end twist is somewhat implausible but I didn't really care.I just enjoyed it for what it was.Well done.

Saw this yesterday,and was looking forward to it because of having seen the trailer but what a let down.Whole scenes seem to have been cut so there was very little continuation of story line.At fist sight Nicole Kidman seems to be a computerised image.Anything of real interest seems to be done as a montage so there is no development of character,and scenes that were shown in the trailer were missing from the film.People who worked in the cinema were as surprised as I was,that the film seemed to finish full fifteen minutes earlier than it was supposed to.More like a 100 minutes then a 113.All I can presume is that a lot of footage already shot has been carried over for part2,so what remains is like a Walt Disney adventure film from years back.Very disappointing.

I saw this movie at the London Film Festival yesterday.It is an incredibly old fashioned piece of film-making that at times seems very contrived and manipulative,but it does contain genuine emotion and a story that keeps you watching from beginning to end.Some of the acting(especially from the 1941 period)is patchy,but in the 1991 period of the film,MacLaine is great,so is Postlewaite but the film is stolen by young Martin McCann as the naive Jimmy Reilly,who is responsible for piecing the lives together of the characters separated by time and oceans.After the showing,Lord Attenborough appeared for a short Q&A and gave us some insight into the making of the film and announced the film will receive it's premiere in Ireland and will be released nationwide on the 28th Dec.My guess is for anyone who has an elderly relative to catch up with over the Christmas period,and wants to take them out,then see this movie.They will love it and you might possibly get hooked.The audience yesterday obviously were.