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Updated Friday, February 29, 2008 0:00 am TWN, By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times




	In this image released by Columbia Pictures, Richard T. Jones, left, and Dennis Quaid are shown in a scene from Columbia Pictures' "Vantage Point". (AP) Enlarge Photo

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Vantage Point 刺殺據點

Attempting to make the best of this is director Travis, whose first feature was the excellent “Omagh,” which brought both feeling and excitement to the story of a bombing in Northern Ireland. But there, with the benefit of a script co-written by Paul Greengrass, writer and director of “Bloody Sunday,” he made the situation feel relevant and real.

Travis has a facility with action and movement, and he does what he can here, but this film’s pedestrian dialogue and nonexistent character development are barriers that can’t be overcome.

For the lack of even borderline real folks means that “Vantage Point’s” gimmickry and coincidence start to seem increasingly implausible. We don’t necessarily mind all the plot tricks thrown at us, but we need something to make us believe this might be happening, and this film can’t supply it.

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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