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oddbodd · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 855 Location: Castle Dracula

A very enjoyable movie with a soupçon more artiness than the average Hollywood action movie.

The action centres around the assassination of the President of the USA at a summit in Spain, and the sotry is told from the point of view of six people who become involved in the event. Firstly, we have the television crew covering the evnt for the US. Secondly, a security guard previously known to have taken a bullet for the president. Thirdly, one of the suspected assassins. We then have the point of view of the President and subsequently an onlooker (played very well by Forest Whittaker), and finally, we see the denoument of the action, as all the loose ends are tied up we come to the end of our tale. These sequences, rather than being insterspersed chronologically, are put together one after the other, and in each, one or two further things become clearer, which makes it quite a fun story to watch.
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Carl B Harrison · Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 1491 Location: UK

Have to agree Oddbodd.

Got to watch it online the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I loved how the story itself is relatively short, but combining all the points of view makes for a tense and entertaining film. Cool

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