Vantage Point

[markvid]

Movie just opened Friday. I'd highly recommend it, many twists and a car chase that rivals a Bond movie.

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

I had wanted to see it, but our critic (who generally is on top of things) said it wad horrendously bad.

 

[finishthehat]

Movie just opened Friday. I'd highly recommend it, many twists and a car chase that rivals a Bond movie.

But for the love of God -- he's barreling down alley-wide streets at 70 MPH, just missing pedestrians who are ducking for cover, skimming in and out between cars as he passes them with a half-inch to spare....AND HE'S MAKING CALLS ON HIS CELPHONE!

 

[DanOregon]

The trailer was better than the movie. But I thought it was good. The car chase was great (anybody know what kind of car that was?) but I think most of it was CG (considering the crowded sidewalks, though I don't know what the OSHA rules are like in Mexico where it was filmed).
Would have liked a little more backstory, but I do think the filmmakers succeeded in making a conventional action movie less conventional.
And why couldn't they have had another car swerve away from the little girl and into the path of the ambulance?

 

[beardpuller]

Darn. I misread and thought this was going to be a thread about the early '70s movie "Vanishing Point," which as a 15-year-old or so, I thought was cinema's greatest contribution to our culture.
"Mississippi Queen." Indeed.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Greatest movie car chase: French Connection.
Second-greatest movie car chase: What's Up Doc?

 

[markvid]

Movie just opened Friday. I'd highly recommend it, many twists and a car chase that rivals a Bond movie.

But for the love of God -- he's barreling down alley-wide streets at 70 MPH, just missing pedestrians who are ducking for cover, skimming in and out between cars as he passes them with a half-inch to spare....AND HE'S MAKING CALLS ON HIS CELPHONE!

Salamanca doesn't have hands-free laws.