I expected this movie to be about conspiracy theory and what not, but it wasn't as complex as the premise had me believe. The film shows an attempted assassination of the President of the United States at an anti-terror summit in Spain six different ways (despite the trailer noting there are eight characters). After a single telling of the events from a single vantage point, the movie rewinds to the beginning of the event at noon, complete with 24-style timestamp. The movie starts behind the cameras of a generic news team, followed by an agent of the Secret Service, then an undercover Spanish policeman, then a random civilian with a camcorder who happened to capture certain key locations on film, then the President himself. The last shot tells it all in an omnipresent view, mostly following the assassins as it answers every question left unanswered in the previous stories and ends with the very extreme climax.
Halfway into the final vantage point I realized that the setup with the five vantage points was all a noble attempt to get all the filler out of the way as soon as possible and pack every important action scene in the last 45 minutes of the film, which is how long the actual story is. The fact that the movie is literally one plot twist after another may make the movie feel longer. I watched what was probably the longest car chase I've ever seen, but it was neat watching the many heroes of the movie act to rescue the President simultaneously in the end despite not being connected in any way, so the ending still felt satisfying. I felt that the multiple vantage points were gimmicky to the point where the story could have done without them. I thought I was going to watch eight different people try to solve the mystery of who shot the President from where like a JFK assassination, but there was no such conspiracy to speak of other than the fact that the assassination was all planned far in advance (and quite cunningly, too) by a small band of international terrorists. Since conspiracy theory pisses me off, I guess this is a good thing.
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