Mar 14th, 2008
Strong cast takes us on quite a thrill ride
If someone remade "Rashomon" with "Bourne" sensibilities, it might look something like "Vantage Point."
A political thriller rooted in today's terror-wary consciousness, "Vantage Point" could be the conspiracy-theory movie to end all conspiracy-theory movies. There are plenty of potential villains around, and there's more than one crime on the agenda.
U.S. President Ashton (William Hurt) arrives in Salamanca, Spain, for an anti-terrorism summit with other world leaders. An excited crowd fills the city's historic Plaza Mayor. Security officers are everywhere, as are news cameras.
One of the Secret Service agents protecting Ashton is Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid), a veteran who took a bullet for the president in the recent past. Indeed, some might think it's too soon for Thomas to be back on duty, but agent in charge Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) doesn't want to write Thomas off.
Thomas is on a stage a few feet from the president when shots ring out and Ashton is felled. Within seconds, the plaza is in chaos. As Ashton is rushed away for treatment, Thomas desperately looks for a way to find the shooter. Then a bomb goes off, creating more panic.
Before the story can advance much further, the film stops and rewinds to the starting time, only to proceed from the perspective of another character, repeating the process several more times until the stories converge in an adrenaline rush of a climax that solves most of the puzzle.
Tags: chaos, movie, theory
11 Responses to “Strong cast takes us on quite a thrill ride”
Yes you can. Ignore the order, and look at the NUMBER beside the entry. If you skip an entry, the number still increments.
Please do.
not personal. I think people here are might be getting kinda sick of the whole Ask Reddit stuff…
Upvoted back to 25
bics or it didn’t blappen.
Friday, September 14, 2007 at 17:06 UMTPost alive for 34 minutespoints: 0up votes: 19down votes: 19Current Rank: ?? (>1000)”New” Rank: 7
This is actually pretty interesting, almost like a chaotic system with a bit of dampening. Each time it goes above #25, more people downvote than necessary, since the feedback isn’t quite immediate, which drives it too far down, then they try to correct and also overshoot, but by less. My guess is that it reaches equilibrium again only because of the people who vote to correct it, fewer of them re-correct when it overshoots.
I might have tried #26. I think some people will downvote eventually because they’re annoyed it’s taking up space on the front page.
It’s at #25 right now.*Now 24. I downvoted, but that wasn’t enough.
Neat Idea! It’s at 25 right now. No up or down vote from me