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Vantage Point Racks Up Awards!Find a movie or celeb or critic here!Vantage Point has an interesting premise that is completely undermined by fractured storytelling and wooden performances.The Tomatometer measures the percentage of positive reviews from Approved Tomatometer Critics for a certain movie.Pete Travis's directorial debut, VANTAGE POINT.Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain (though much of the film was actually shot in Mexico), to announce plans for a major global summit on...Pete Travis's directorial debut, VANTAGE POINT.But as he stands behind the podium in front of an adoring crowd (with protesters blocked off from the stage), he is shot twice, followed shortly by a small explosion and then a massive blast.Secret Service Agents Barnes (Dennis Quaid), Taylor (Matthew Fox), and Holden (Richard T.VANTAGE POINT has the feel of the 1950 Akira Kurosawa classic RASHOMON, told with the speed of the television show 24.To fall for Vantage Point you have to throw away any connection to reality.Those inclined to scrutinize the logic of Barry Levy's screenplay are likely to come away as baffled by its farfetched twists as amused by its bombastic excesses.Vantage Point takes a pretty high concept, dribbles a bunch of red herrings all over it, and makes things go boom, reaping better yields than the average TV show.As Vantage Point becomes increasingly busy with personal betrayals and redemptions, the ostensible politics, reductive to begin with, fall by the wayside.There's roughly 20 minutes of story here, and no matter how many times they stop and start over again from an even more preposterous angle, it's still going to play out like a lousy episode of 24.Writer Barry Levy has added some snap, crackle and pop to what would otherwise be a routine action film had it been presented in chronological order.Vantage Point might sound intriguing on paper but it's all gimmick and not a lot of substance.As much as we'd like to see an American president made accountable, we don't have to see it over and over and over again.The stories are cleverly interwoven, with a couple of unexpected twists, and the patient viewer is rewarded with a doozy of a car chase in the last reel.As daft as it all becomes, Vantage Point is never dull.But the last reel plunge spoils things.Plot hole or did I miss something?Seriously funny movie (light spoiler alert!Orlando Parfitt March 19, 2008 Roland Emmerich's 10,000 B.Vantage Point is a 2008 thriller film from Columbia Pictures, written by Barry Levy and directed by Pete Travis.Plot
The film is set in Salamanca, Spain, but it was mostly filmed in Mexico; only some of the scenes were shot in Salamanca.The film loops through this period over and over, each time from the perspective of a different participant, adding a new piece to the larger puzzle with each loop.An explosion in the distance soon follows, and a few minutes later the podium is destroyed by another explosion, killing GNN's news reporter; she is filmed lying dead.Thomas Barnes' perspective
The second perspective is that of Secret Service agents Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox).After the President is shot, he tackles a man rushing the podium, who is then dragged off by other agents.Barnes and Taylor run up to the man they saw earlier and Barnes insists on viewing the footage on the video camera.Barnes is fairly sure that he spotted the shooter in one of the windows and the man thinks he might have caught the assassin on film.Barnes wants to come with, but Taylor tells Barnes to stay in order to avoid being blamed for failing to spot the assassin in time.Taylor goes off in pursuit as Barnes continues to review the footage.He sees something that alerts him to a probable bomb under the podium and starts running but is too late to alert anyone.He barges into the mobile production room and orders Brooks to show him their footage.While they are rewinding the film, Barnes talks to Taylor, who reports being in hot pursuit of the suspect and in need of immediate assistance.Enrique's perspective
This is followed by the perspective of Enrique (Eduardo Noriega), a police officer assigned to protect the mayor.He spots his girlfriend being embraced by a stranger and overhears them speaking about a meeting under a nearby underpass.Realizing that there must have been a bomb in the bag, he breaks custody and starts running to the underpass that he heard about earlier while Secret Service agents attempt to recapture him but fail to do so while chasing him through several buildings.His scene ends as he confronts someone at the underpass, asking if they are surprised to see him still alive.Like in the previous scenes, the viewer is not shown the "surprise element".He apologizes in Spanish and offers to buy her a new one, but her mother declines.He notices one of the Secret Service agents, Agent Barnes, looking at a window and aims his camera at it before pointing it at the podium again.Barnes runs up to him and requests to view the film in Lewis' video camera, they both see a woman throw a bag under the podium, which is what alerted Barnes in his scene.After the bomb explodes, he picks up Anna, who has lost her mother, while chasing Enrique and the pursuing agents.Dropping Anna off with a female Spanish police officer, Lewis continues to run after Enrique.Lewis is standing on the pedestrian overpass when police officers fire in Enrique's direction and Enrique collapses, mortally wounded.As an ambulance is seconds away from running Anna over, Lewis runs out on to the street to save her, ending his perspective.President Ashton's perspective
The scene moves on to the perspective of the real President Ashton.Unknown to the public and GNN, and initially to the film audience, it is a body double of the president that has been shot.During this transition to the hotel, the president's advisor Phil McCullough is advocating an attack on a supposdly related terrorist camp in Morocco.Ashton is upset when he sees that Tom Barnes, who had previously saved him from another assassination is being put out front to test his recovery.The immediate reaction of his advisor is to coordinate with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to authorize the camp attack.At that moment, the explosion in the distance heard before is revealed to be a suicide bomber in the lobby of his hotel.The terrorist plan
The final perspective is that of the terrorists orchestrating the attack.The assassination attempt on the double is revealed to be an elaborate ruse, done by remote control via an automated rifle.The rifle is then retrieved by Secret Service agent Taylor, who is then spotted on the live feed by Barnes as he was leaving the scene in a Spanish policeman's uniform, clearly lying to Barnes who he was talking to on his cellphone.Meanwhile, Javier (Edgar Ramirez), the assassin who has made his way into President Ashton's room (and who is working for the terrorists only because his brother is being held hostage), leads Ashton to the elevator, where Ashton is knocked unconscious and quietly loaded onto an ambulance.This elaborate plot is never revealed to the public, who are told that a lone assassin was shot and killed.Production
With an initial planned release date of February 15, 2008, filming began June 18, 2006 in Mexico City, Mexico.Dennis Quaid as Thomas Barnes: Veteran member of the POTUS Secret Service security detail during the summit.It is revealed that he is working for the terrorists as well.He is touring Spain and happens to be at the summit.Suarez: Terrorist leading the assassination attempt on the President.William Hurt as President Henry Ashton and his body double.Eduardo Noriega as Enrique: Undercover policeman deceived by Veronica and Suarez; dies after being shot multiple times by Javier.Ayelet Zurer as Veronica: Terrorist masquerading as a local paramedic; Enrique's girlfriend.Jones as Holden: Member of the Secret Service security detail during the summit.Critical reception
Vantage Point has received generally negative to mixed reviews from critics.Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 40 out of 100, based on 31 reviews..Vantage Point Official Movie Site.Further reading
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Mosaic at SonyPictures.Official world wide release dates with links to different national sites.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.Maintenance Notice: Over the next few days, we will be updating our Download pages.Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA, 9:45 AM, Thursday, April 17.Improving your Vantage Point on Patent Information.Announcing the release of VantagePoint v5.Downloads page to access the library.How Science Deals with the Future.Patent Information at the Patent Information Users Group (PIUG) Conference, Arlington, VA, May, 2008.Chain Management (TIRMSCM), Beijing, Oct.Products for Key Management Questions, with Petracchi, M.Firms from the US send their data to India for sophisticated analysis, specific to marketing questions, and people in India, typically MBAs, analyze the data and report findings.Marketics is a well known firm in the field, with HP Analytics and Dell Analytics also doing a fair bit of business that way.They also did not seem to be aware of others in their firm using R.Now ideally of course, you would want to use C or C++, but that involves programming which the analysts might not feel comfortable doing.Plus, R is open source, hence free.The R community is also very active, so just one google search can help you find packages written by others which can allow you to do everything, from complex regressions to cluster analysis to structural equation modeling, to segmentation, to....Is it because the salespeople for proprietary packages have been able to wield more influence than they should?Fortunately, I had another dollar, so I put it in, pressed D4 again, and got both the Twix bars.Wonder when Bill will interrupt her like Chandler to say "They left!"Through Amit Varma's blog I came across this interesting article by Vikram Doctor.He wonders why Maharashtrian food is not popular outside the state.Malvani, Konkani or Gomantak restaurants).Doctor has ignored a rather obvious explanation.Who made idlis and dosas a national breakfast fare?People from places like Udupi who migrated from their states to other places in search of livelihood.Who made the generic Punjabi fare popular?The causality here is ambiguous.One explanation could be cultural, and sociologists could explain why Marathis don't venture out too much.Everyone wants to come to Bombay.But the Marathi restaurateur didn't need to leave the state.Why go all the way to Delhi or Kolkata when you have massive markets just a few hours away?Also, relatively speaking, the infrastructure and law and order has been better in Maharashtra than most states.And maybe this lack of an incentive to immigrate.....Let me end with a personal anecdote.Rickshaws charged huge premiums to go there.So we often had to make do with the meagre options available in the vicinity.There were 3 food stalls.One was a vadapav seller.The other was a bhelpuri wallah.All of us who grew up in the locality patronized these places regularly.Twenty years later, the locality is no longer on the outskirts.It is heavily populated with a lot of traffic.The vadapav and the bhelpuri guys....Both guys are moderate successes and happy with their lives.But they were just content hiring one or two guys to wash the dishes, cut the pavs, cut the onions alongside them standing at the stalls.And here's the real kicker.Then a guy who owns a shop next to him told me the bhelwallah could be in Australia now.He ensured he would get him a visa, get him a house, and set up a "marathi fast food restaurant" with him.Amit Varma and Neelakantan have made the point that the emergence of IPL is analogous to the liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s.Yes, it has given chance for some players to shine on talent, and not be selected based on political issues.Think about how the BCCI is muscling out the ICL using unethical and even illegal (according to the English court judgment) means.But I fail to see it having any real impact on what is wrong with Indian cricket.The BCCI is still not accountable to anyone.And selection for the Indian team will still be driven by regional biases, because the IPL circumstances don't have any impact on the skewed incentive structures there.In fact, the IPL might take BCCI politicization to newer levels.If anything, the IPL has just enabled the BCCI to stmap out dissent and competition, further strengthen its monopoly as well as monopsony, but cloak it in a friendlier garb.The real liberalization in my opinion is the emergence of the ICL.ICL is a real competition to the BCCI.Now, I have never heard James before, but there are many similar to him who infest the American airwaves.Bush gave a speech to the Israeli parliament in which many believe he took an indirect shot at Obama by comparing him to those who appeased Hitler.In doing so, Bush unwittingly conformed to Godwin's law.What Chamberlain did wrong was appeasing Hitler.Now you would figure that anyone who paid attention during high school history classes would know what Chamberlain did wrong, what the Munich Pact was all about, and so on.All he seems to know is that Chamberlain was an "appeaser".Hollywood, mainly due to his own problems.Tony Stark is as close an approximation as is possible to answer that question.From a natural casting to major cognitive dissonance.So Obidaya is a rare delight, almost reminiscent of Mogambo or Lotiya Pathan types, if 80s bollywood were a yardstick.Cognitive dissonance sets in because the role has been carried off in a sinisterly perfect way by the guy cannabically etched into my brain as "the dude".Looks and sounds like Bob Cristo.Manchester hit upon an ingenious idea.Unable to afford a proper camera crew and equipment, The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from the city, decided to make use of the cameras seen all over British streets.But there now seems to be an air of inevitability around Obama.But Hillary keeps shifting goalposts.Watch an exclusive interview with the stars of 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