How my rating system works

After hearing some pretty intense debates about rating systems, how metacritic and all those other sites do it, I'm not going to do grades or numbers. Instead it's going to be pretty simple. I'll type "Bottom Line" then my recommendation. It could be: go watch it, go play it, go rent it, go read it, stay far, far away from it like it's a nuclear reactor melting down.

Vantage Point

Sounds pretty cool doesn't it? Seeing an event from different points of view, the event of the President being shot no less, would seem to be a good action flick at least. Too bad the movie doesn't deliver.

The problem lies within the execution of the "different points of view." The first 3 or 4 characters' sequences are all pretty much the exact same events with a few personal scenes thrown in. This makes the first half hour of the movie pretty boring. I fell asleep while watching it.

The action does pick up after that part, but frankly, it's too little too late.

Bottom line: Rent this. Buy it only if you find it for a ridiculously cheap price, which is all I would pay for this movie anyway.