Metacritic Movie Ratings
Vantage Point Reviews

3.0

out of 100

Metascore^®
Mixed or average reviews
Based on a weighted average of all critic review scores.

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

58

out of 100

Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Vantage Point starts to slide off the rails when it tracks a tourist (Forest Whitaker) and his trusty camcorder; instead of Zapruder-like intrigue, the episode has him running around like an agent in a rote thriller.

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50

out of 100

USA TodayClaudia Puig
Turns out to be a tepid thriller that promises more than it delivers.

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50

out of 100

The New York TimesManohla Dargis
This is competent if completely impersonal filmmaking of a familiar type that finds the usual allotment of famous, or at least famous enough, actors.

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40

out of 100

Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
The truth is that two other films with Greengrass' name on them, "The Bourne Supremacy" and "The Bourne Ultimatum," have spoiled us for this kind of thriller filmmaking, and stacked against that, Vantage Point doesn't have a chance.

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30

out of 100

The Hollywood ReporterSheri Linden
Straight out of the slice-and-dice school of filmmaking, Vantage Point fractures chronology and perspective in a vain attempt to disguise its flimsiness.

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10

out of 100

VarietyJustin Chang
A 23-minute movie dragged out, via some narrative gimmickry, to a punishing hour and a half.

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10

out of 100

Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Why, beating the audience about the ears, eyes and brain with essentially the same sequence of events from eight characters' points of view, none of which adds much more than deafening hysteria and identically dreadful music. The filmmakers seem to have missed the point that each re-enactment in "Rashomon" provides new and conflicting information. It makes you wonder if they studied the wrong movie. Maybe they rented "Rush Hour," or a video on Rosh Hashanah.

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