Vantage Point

I must be getting harder to please.

Jennifer and I caught Vantage Point last night.

I can usually find some good in every movie that gives such a great excuse for buttery, salty popcorn and fountain coke. Apart from one cool PDA/Phone-as-a-terrorist-productivity tool, it had nothing of interest except doing fast-reverse to the same point in time so we can watch the first 20 minutes over and over again. After showing us the first 20 minutes what seems like 6 times, we get some advancement in time, again with some rewind/vantage point shift. Unfortunately, they never show us much more of the movie; we maybe get 3/4 of the way through the first act, and then it's over.

Too bad they never showed us the vantage point from which you can see interesting characters, developed plot lines and intriguing bad guys.