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Vantage Point (2008)
What a movie! (contains spoilers)
The reason I didn't give this movie 5 out of 10 was because the ending was so cheesy it made me cry with laughter.
I won't give an in-depth over view of the plot for that can easily be found on this site or in other comments. The movie itself is similar to an episode of 24. A thriller, that would have been a lot better if not for the cheesy moments and numerous floors in the story line.
To give it credit it does try something different by telling the story from 8 different points of view. But the way it does this, by getting to an explosion, rewinding and then starting again, got repetitive by the 4th time. I was sat wondering will this repeat for the next 3 hours. Fortunately for the second half of the film it continues in a normal chronological narrative.
The Ending! Contains Spoilers!
What the director and/or writer was thinker I do not know. The ending is amazing and in the cinema I was in, the whole audience was in laughter - Ending as follows - A young girl who was separated from her mother during the commotion of the assignation attempt, is found by Forest Whitaker, who takes her to a police officer. As the terrorists are getting away in an Ambulance, with the kidnapped president in the back. Out of no where this young girl who apparently has ran away from the police officer, is suddenly walking in the middle of the road and by another coincidence her mum who is near by, sees her and starts running towards her. At the same time the terrorists drive down the road towards the little girl. The terrorist then swerves to avoid the little girl, toppling the ambulance over. Dennis Quaid (a secret service officer) who was involved in another chase just happens to be there and finds the president in the Ambulance, he even calls out to him even though there was no way he could have know him to be there. I half expected Rambo to jump out and say, 'live for nothing or die or something' and kill the remaining terrorist. I'm not making this ending up and is worth watching this film just for the unintentional comedy ending.