Vantage Point (film)

Vantage Point
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Directed by	Pete Travis
Written by	Barry L. Levy
Produced by	Neal H. Moritz
Starring	Dennis Quaid Matthew Fox Forest Whitaker Sigourney Weaver William Hurt Édgar Ramírez Ayelet Zurer
Cinematography	Amir Mokri
Edited by	Stuart Baird
Music by	Atli Örvarsson
Production companies	Columbia Pictures Relativity Media Original Film
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Releasing
Release dates	February 13, 2008 (2008-02-13) (Salamanca) February 22, 2008 (2008-02-22) (United States)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$40 million[1]
Box office	$152 million[1]

Vantage Point is a 2008 American political action thriller film directed by Pete Travis and written by Barry L. Levy. The story focuses on an assassination attempt on the President of the United States in Salamanca, Spain, as seen from the various vantage points of different characters. Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver star.

The film is often compared unfavorably to Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, which also employed storytelling through multiple perspectives. Rashomon used the multiple perspectives to question the possibility of truth, in a process called the Rashomon effect; in contrast, Vantage Point recounts a series of events which are re-enacted from several different perspectives and viewpoints to reveal a truthful account of what happened. Vantage Point also explores kidnapping, assassination and terrorism.^[2]

The film was co-produced by Relativity Media, Original Film, and Art In Motion, and began filming in Mexico City on June 18, 2006. It premiered in Salamanca on February 13, 2008, and was released in theaters in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing through the Columbia Pictures label on February 22. The film score, released by Varèse Sarabande on February 26, was composed by Atli Örvarsson.

Vantage Point grossed $151 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics.