Vantage Point

“8 Strangers. 8 Points of View. 1 Truth.”

Staking out new movies in theatres worth watching online is one of my “whoooza” (read: relaxing) past times. Whichever catches my fancy gets listed down on my “to watch” list, movies that I think have exceptional quality and worth watching with Buboy. So last Sunday, I grabbed my all-nighter bag and hopped on the next airconditioned Ceres bus to Bacolod with one thing in mind: to watch the movie currently ranked number 1 on my list — Vantage Point.

I arrived on a rainy evening at Bacolod. The weather, however, cannot dampen my spirit because not only was a sumptuous meal at Palapala waiting for me, but also Buboy as well, together with Ray and Manong Mike (who drove us to SM once all the food had been consumed save for a platter full of shrimps and the bill settled). With a full stomach (what better way to watch a movie!), we directly went to SM’s cinema theatres, purchased 3 “babaw” (Ilonggo term for a deluxe theater accommodation) Vantage Point movie tickets and find seats that best suited our liking.

True to its trailer, the movie is in itself a Box-Office leader. Unlike the other movies I’ve seen so far, this one uses the effect of the subjectivity of a person’s perception based on recollection, by which the 8 observers of the movie’s landmark Summit event are able to produce 8 substantially different but equally reasonable, valid accounts of it. In this movie, Angie (Zoe Saldana) is a field reporter covering the Summit held in Palanca, Spain, whose TV News Producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver) was shown to have given her best efforts to contain an organized chaos in the world of media reporting just to deliver the news and facts about the conference as it is. Two Secret Service Agents Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) who took a bullet for the President a year prior to the Summit and who became a rogue operative, respectively, were assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt). Amongst the crowd is an American tourist named Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) who was there to witness the historic event. He video taped the crowd: the children perched on the edge of the windows, a man (Eduardo Noriega) talking to his girlfriend; met a fellow tourist (Saïd Taghmaoui) and Anna. The 1 truth behind the assassination attempt of the President’s life can only be revealed by following each person’s perspective. Mind you, I laughed when the 5^th vantage point was rehashed. Tell me you did, you’ll know once you’ve seen the movie (*wink*).

Indeed, this one is an action-packed thriller of which I gave a rating of 5/5. A must see movie for you, your loved ones, your family and friends. Come share with me your opinion and rating of this movie.

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