Vantage Point Bluray review

The gripping political thriller, Vantage Point, boasts an all-star cast headed by TV heart throb MATTHEW FOX (Lost, Smokin’ Aces) and a powerful ensemble of DENNIS QUAID (In Good Company, The Day After Tomorrow) and Academy Award® winner FOREST WHITAKER (The Last King of Scotland). Out to buy on DVD and Blu-ray and to rent on from 4th August 2008, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, it’s an action-packed political thriller about an attempted presidential assassination told from 8 different viewpoints.

Also starring WILLIAM HURT (Into the Wild), SIGOURNEY WEAVER (Infamous, Ghostbusters) and Oscar-winning FOREST WHITAKER (The Last King of Scotland), Vantage Point is directed by British filmmaker PETER TRAVIS (Omagh, Henry VIII).

In a similar vein to action films like The Bourne Ultimatum and TV sensation 24, Vantage Point follows two secret service agents assigned to protect the US president at a counter-terrorism summit in Salamanca, Spain. When the President is shot, chaos ensues and disparate lives collide. It is only by carefully following each perspective of the same 15 minutes before and immediately after the shooting that the terrifying truth behind the assassination attempt is revealed.

The Blu-ray release includes great interactive features such as a Picture-in-Picture GPS tracker that allows the viewer to watch two vantage points of this exciting thriller simultaneously, whilst tracking all the listed characters at once on a GPS map. It’s the ultimate interactive movie experience and enables the viewer to see the various different perspectives at any given time during the film.

Quite frankly Sony have once again blown my clothes off with the picture quality, which is a first-rate 1080p high definition picture. The 2.40:1-framed image constantly provides a stunning colour quality in all the expected places. Colour reproduction and fine detail manage to stand above the crowd. Colours flourish throughout the movie, from the opening moments to the last, creating an amazing viewing experience. The wide array of clothing worn by every character, and the beautiful earthy tones of the Spanish architecture all come together to form brilliant eye candy – don’t get too excited over it. Detail isn’t just remarkable but also consistent. Everything, from the bricks lining the streets of Spain, to the various buildings, to the rubble strewn on the ground after an explosion, to the fine lines and stitching as in pieces of clothing, to the facial hair and fine lines and wrinkles of characters faces adding more to your Vantage Point viewing experience. Even after the movie is over, it feels as if the picture quality was so good it made an imprint on my eye ball, sounds extreme but the picture quality is good enough for you to foul yourself. Don’t believe me? Find out for yourself then. Wait it gets even better, the flesh tones are accurate throughout, and black levels are solid but also appear as a shade of dark grey in a few scenes, a slight downfall but everything can’t be perfect. Vantage Point is a stunning transfer and it wouldn't be a bad choice to use as a video demonstration the next time you have friends come over to check out your Blu-ray home theatre – make sure you’ve got a decent amount of toilet paper.

You thought that the picture quality was good enough to ensure you fouled yourself, well the sound quality ensures anything that was left is coming out to. Vantage Pointcomes to Blu-ray with another high quality Dolby True HD 5.1 sound mix. Simply the music quality is perfect and precise. The film's first few minutes are marked by a few loud, sudden bursts of sound, including an explosion that rocks your home theatre and puts the viewer firmly in the middle of the action, trust me you’re going to be astounded by the quality. Outdoor shots of the summit feature incredibly life like crowd noise. Not only is the crowd's chanting, protesting, and applause placed in the rears and the front speakers as well, but the sounds of flash bulbs, car doors slamming, and other details are spread throughout the sound system, so you think you almost in the middle of it all. The effect is simply uncanny. Vantage Point's aural experience is rounded out by first-rate dialogue reproduction.

Quite simply this is the bee knees, the dogs’ b******. Go out get it and find out for yourself.

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