Summary
The audience's trouble alert sails into orange from the outset, with our first glimpse of William Hurt as the president of the United States. (America must be in even bigger trouble than we ever imagined.) A laughably unconvincing cable news station called GNN is cryptically reporting on some sort of historic summit in Salamanca, Spain. There are vague mentions of terrorism, some talk of recent attacks and a few hordes of angry protesters, but any actual specifics are left off-screen, perhaps out of fear of alienating audience members' political sensibilities, or more likely just due to the filmmakers' profound lack of imagination.
First we're in the GNN control booth with Sigourney Weaver's hardnosed news director, where the actress appears so bored she can barely muster anything above a monotone. Then comes [Dennis Quaid]'s secret Service agent, a bit of a nervous wreck returning to active duty for the first time after taking a bullet in the chest to save the prez's life during the last assassination attempt. (GNN helpfully has the footage already cued up.) Quaid attempts to beat down his charisma and play it dour. He just looks constipated.See the full content of this document
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Point Blank
Assassinating the president has never been so dull.Temporal gimmicks aren't exactly an innovation in the world of motion pictures, but nobody told the makers of the crummy, incredibly annoying Vantage Poin...See the full content of this document
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