Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver

Director: Pete Travis

So many films have been made now on the assassination or probable assassination of the American President that the makers of this film realised they had to do “something different”. So, the tagline: 8 strangers, 8 points of view, 1 truth.

So, the concept: the American President is attacked at a historic summit against terror in Spain, and the film goes on to examine the event from the eyes of eight people witness to it.

So far, so good. However, the problem is that told six times over, the attempted assassination in the end portrays only one point of view: that bad people want to kill the US President (Hurt), who is a brave sort of fellow, and that a lone Secret Agent (Quaid) after a painfully wrong car chase catches them. What about the seven other points of view?

Vantage Point does have eight vantage points — and stations some interesting actors from Weaver to Whitaker there— but from all, the view is the same.

For anyone interested in any other views, there is a film they can rent: The Death of a President.