Sim1An Awesome Movie Review
May 15th 2010 21:00
After a disappointing movie that I was assured would be ace, I would now like to talk about a film that my good friend and former colleague R once described as average. Actually, I think he may have used the word ‘crap’. But of course, if everyone else thinks it’s shit, I invariably love it!
To be fair, they did throw some money at the casting for this one. We have Matthew Fox, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver and Forest Whitaker. To this fine cast, you may add some foreign actors for eye candy and villainy. And then all it takes is a simple, yet brilliant idea: you think of a fairly simple plot, a tried and tested Hollywood one works best here, for example ‘Boy Meets Girl’, or ‘There is a Car Chase in San Francisco’. Or indeed ‘Let’s kill the President of the United States.’ Then you show that plot from different characters’ points of view and hey presto! Fish on Film is a very happy Fish indeed.
If you are stuck for ideas for what to name this masterpiece, may I suggest something like ‘Vantage Point’.
You see, dearest fishy readers, I simply love films like this. A ‘whodunnit’ for the advanced movie goer with an IQ in the double figures. Sadly I am not one of them, I am blonde and when watching ‘Vantage Point’, I suffered from my well-documented ailment which I call ‘The Mission Impossible Syndrome’. It’s like this: I absolutely adore the movie because of it’s intricate story lines and twists. I fully understand that not all is what it seems but I have absolutely no clue what the hell is going on. For the first 10 minutes of the film, I couldn’t even work out which of the characters was the President!
All I can report back is, that in ‘Vantage Point’, William Hurt, Dennis Quaid and Forest Whitaker are the only goodies. Forest Whitaker actually broke my heart in this film. He portrayed his innocent, teddy-bear-with-a-big-heart, tourist character so beautifully, I just wanted to hug him.
I didn’t understand who the taskforce behind the botched killing of the President was. Why did they want him dead and why did they kill that dude’s brother, when the dude did everything they asked? And what was the Spanish cop’s involvement? Why did he run and why did the ‘Let’s Kill the President-taskforce’ kill him? I have no idea.
And director Pete Travis tried to make it clear for dummies like me, he really did! Every so often, he would rewind everything I’ve just seen, put the clock back to 11.59h and 57 seconds and then start telling the story again. I must have seen that explosion at least 5 or 6 times. But I guess there just isn’t a cure for my ‘Mission Impossible Syndrome’. Although it doesn’t stop me from watching unfathomable things like ‘LOST’ and ‘Flash Forward’.
So, dear readers, what I am trying to tell you is this: ‘Vantage Point’ is an awesome movie. That is all.
To be fair, they did throw some money at the casting for this one. We have Matthew Fox, Dennis Quaid, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver and Forest Whitaker. To this fine cast, you may add some foreign actors for eye candy and villainy. And then all it takes is a simple, yet brilliant idea: you think of a fairly simple plot, a tried and tested Hollywood one works best here, for example ‘Boy Meets Girl’, or ‘There is a Car Chase in San Francisco’. Or indeed ‘Let’s kill the President of the United States.’ Then you show that plot from different characters’ points of view and hey presto! Fish on Film is a very happy Fish indeed.
You see, dearest fishy readers, I simply love films like this. A ‘whodunnit’ for the advanced movie goer with an IQ in the double figures. Sadly I am not one of them, I am blonde and when watching ‘Vantage Point’, I suffered from my well-documented ailment which I call ‘The Mission Impossible Syndrome’. It’s like this: I absolutely adore the movie because of it’s intricate story lines and twists. I fully understand that not all is what it seems but I have absolutely no clue what the hell is going on. For the first 10 minutes of the film, I couldn’t even work out which of the characters was the President!
All I can report back is, that in ‘Vantage Point’, William Hurt, Dennis Quaid and Forest Whitaker are the only goodies. Forest Whitaker actually broke my heart in this film. He portrayed his innocent, teddy-bear-with-a-big-heart, tourist character so beautifully, I just wanted to hug him.
And director Pete Travis tried to make it clear for dummies like me, he really did! Every so often, he would rewind everything I’ve just seen, put the clock back to 11.59h and 57 seconds and then start telling the story again. I must have seen that explosion at least 5 or 6 times. But I guess there just isn’t a cure for my ‘Mission Impossible Syndrome’. Although it doesn’t stop me from watching unfathomable things like ‘LOST’ and ‘Flash Forward’.
So, dear readers, what I am trying to tell you is this: ‘Vantage Point’ is an awesome movie. That is all.
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