It's taken me a while to see Vantage Point, cos even though I thought the premise looked interesting, I'd heard it was pretty bad. It wasn't bad - just not great. To be honest it felt like a competent episode of 24 and I so expect more from the big screen. Dennis Quaid plays the Clint-type (you know the films) Secret Service agent, back on duty after a breakdown from taking a bullet for the President. Forest Whitaker is totally under-used (as is Sigourney Weaver as a TV director) and as such miss-cast as a tourist witnessing events as they unroll. So it's basically a Groundhog Day thriller which repeatedly returns to the same action again and again, only from differing perspectives. With each re-run we learn more about the events that have occurred and with each perspective filling in more blanks and answering a question from the previous vantage point. Good idea shame about the lazy plot. (5.0)How She Move is another urban dance movie but this time it's "Step" (think Stomp). Young girl (Rutina Wesley) from The Hood, has managed to escape to a good school in the Burbs. After the drug-related death of her sister, her parents can't afford to keep her there however; and she must fund her own way by attempting to win a Step-dance competion, that is luckily, just weeks away. Just enough time to practice with several different dance crews then. To fall out with said dance crews and then make friends again with dance crews. To fall in love, to bring her grieving parents back together, to give chances to talented individuals overlooked and to break down the gender barriers that determine only all male crews win these "Step-Dancing" comps. Nae bad (5.0)
And the winner is How She Move by a bootlace....
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