Even a fine cast can't do much to breathe life intoBoiling Point, a thin gangster piece ... more
starring Dennis Hopper as a pathetic small-timer trying to get ahead with one final score. The bad guys don't take him seriously, a cop (Wesley Snipes) is content t...
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Red (Dennis Hopper), fresh from Prison, is an aging scam-artist looking for a new job. ... more
Together with fellow ex-con Ronnie (Viggo Mortensen), a naive and easily manipulated young hoodlum, Red starts his own business. However, this business involves orga...
Red (Dennis Hopper), fresh from Prison, is an aging scam-artist looking for a new job. ... more
Together with fellow ex-con Ronnie (Viggo Mortensen), a naive and easily manipulated young hoodlum, Red starts his own business. However, this business involves organising fake-money sales and murder. Things go wrong when Ronnie kills an undercover agent, who's partner Jimmy Mercer (Wesley Snipes) has one week before being transferred. The clock is ticking for Jimmy as he tries to track down his partners killers, and enforce his own justice.
When Masaki, A gas station attendant and bit part baseball player incurs the wrath of the ... more
local Yakuza, he heads to Okinawa to buy a gun so he can stand up for himself. Whilst there, he is joined in his quest by a former gangster ('Beat' Takeshi), who has his own reason for getting back at the mob.Violence escalates until the mild-tempered Masaki takes on oil truck from his gas station and drives it straight into Yakuza headquarters. In their different ways 'Beat' Takashi and Masaki come to the boil. The conclusion id explosive...
Dennis Hopper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Blue Velvet, Apocalypse Now)is Rudolph Red ... more
Diamond, a convicted criminal, a scam artist who always has a trick uphis sleeve, who always looking for that one last, big job. Viggo Mortensen(The LordOf The Rings Trilogy, A History Of Violence, Carlito's Way) is Ronnie,his sidekick, alow down, psychotic hoodlum searching for an easy buck. Things are tough on thestreets for Rudolph and Ronnie and these small time crooks are about to get some bigtime trouble when a counterfeiting scam goes horribly wrong and thick,hot headedRonnie ends up shooting and killing an undercover cop. Wesley Snipes (Blade Trilogy, Money Train, White Men Can't Jump) is Jimmy Mercer,acop on the edge, a cop who has seven days before he's transferred and seven days towreak revenge on the scum that killed his partner. Things are heating up and they'reabout to reach boiling point.
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 2007 - Action/Adventure - Director: Paul Greengrass - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, Joan Allen, Edgar Ramirez, David Strathairn, Paddy Considine, Albert Finney
Advantages: Interesting story Disadvantages: Repeated Vantage points told
Vantage Point
The President of the USA addresses a summit of world leaders in Salamanca Spain, gun shots are fired at the President, soon after a bomb then goes off resulting in a complete wreck. The media reporter also gets blasted by the bomb along with many others. Dennis Quaith a US security expert is in charge of the President's Security and
the film for the first hour includes the President assisination attempt which is presented in different vantage points. This is in effect a repeat of the story time after time from a different perspective of those people who were at the scene of the bomb blasts.
forest Whitaker is shown to be an honest looking person who is happy to be abroad in Spain for the first time in his life. He captures most of the story as it unfolds on his camcorder. He gets the action of the scenery ...
costas1234 07.06.2009 (18.06.2009)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Vantage Point (DVD)
At a meeting between Muslim and western countries in Salamanca, Spain the president of the United States is shot by an assassin. Secret service agent Thomas Barnes seeks to requisition all the available footage from a TV producer, her news crew and a tourist. When seen from all the available perspectives, it appears that all is not as it seems. What do the assassins want? Is the president really alive? What is the truth?
Director Pete Travis has previously only directed for television and his inexperience shows in his big screen debut. It plays out like a TV movie that's struck lucky because it is prone to cinematic cliché and episodic pacing. The biggest bugbear I have with the director is the way he approaches the same events from myriad viewpoints. He employs a frustrating and hackneyed device whereby he gets to a certain point in ...
Advantages: Fast paced film with the quirky idea to retell the same segment from different perspectives . Disadvantages: Too short - would have like a bit more background on the characters .
Vantage Point (2008)
I seemed to have been watching mostly children?s films lately, so it made a nice change to settle down and watch something grown up for a change. Being short of time, I decided to watch it over two nights, but in the end I really got into it and stayed up into the early hours to finish it.
The film is quite short and only lasts for 90 minutes.
Plot
The plot is quite simple; it centres on the shooting of the American President, when he is in Spain attending a summit on terrorism. Of course this type of thing has been done many times before, but his film is different in that it keeps showing the events leading up to the assassination and just after from the viewpoint of key individuals. Each time some other viewpoint is added and the story moves forward a little more, with the audience learning more ...
Contains strong violence and language, Contains strong language and violence
Video Category
World Cinema Feature Film, Feature Film
Country Of Origin
Japan, United States of America
Plot
Masaki decides to buy a gun so he can stand up for himself. En route he meets up with a friend who also wants to get back at someone. Together they jump into explosive action...
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
MIA Video Entertainment Ltd; Pinnacle Vision, PATHE DISTRIBUTION; 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT, SECOND SIGHT FILMS LTD.; METRODOME DISTRIBUTION; SONY DADC, OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT; ELEVATION SALES; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
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Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Dolby Digital
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Japanese
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Professional reviews
Review
...Takeshi Kitano is one of the most exciting directors to emerge in international cinema in this decade... (Los Angeles Times, 12/03/2009)
DVD Description
In Takeshi Kitano's quirky second film, Masaki (Masahiko Ono), a quiet baseball-playing gas station attendant, runs into trouble with the local yakuza. Masaki's baseball coach, Iguchi (Takahito Iguchi), turns out to be a former yakuza and attempts to straighten out the situation but only winds up making things worse. In order to stand up for himself, Masaki, along with his friend Kazuo (Minoru Iizuka), heads to Okinawa to buy a gun. There the two encounter tough guy Uehara (Kitano, acting under his alias, Beat Takeshi) and his all-too-loyal henchman, Tamagi (Katsuo Tokashiki), who are both in trouble with the yakuza as well. After various odd incidents, Uehara helps Masaki and Kazuo acquire a gun. When they attempt to use the weapon, however, the result sets the groundwork for an explosive climax.
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