

In Salamanca, Spain, an assassination attempt on U.S. The film score was composed by musician Atli Örvarsson.įollowing its release on February 22, 2008, Vantage Point grossed $151 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics.

On February 26, 2008, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released by Varèse Sarabande. The film project began principal photography in Mexico City on June 18, 2006. It was commercially distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing through the Columbia Pictures label theatrically, and by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in home media format. The film was co-produced by Relativity Media, Original Film, and Art In Motion.

Vantage Point also explores kidnapping, assassination and terrorism. 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. The film is often compared, unfavorably, to Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, which also employed storytelling through multiple perspectives. Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver star in principal roles. The story focuses on an assassination attempt on the President of the United States, as seen from the various vantage points of different characters. Vantage Point is a 2008 American political action thriller film directed by Pete Travis and written by Barry L.
