I had some free movie tickets and I decided to see Vantage Point this weekend.  The Spiderwick Chronicles also looked interesting, but I got a free ticket (deal was posted in the freebies section, but it is now dead) and I needed to use my generic free passes before they expired.  Vantage Point has a few name actors in it, Dennis Quaid, Forrest Whittaker, Matthew Fox (of Lost fame) to name a few.  The movie is mainly about a 20 minute sequence in time.  You get to relive the same 20 minutes about 5 or 6 times, each time from the viewpoint of a different person and then everything rolls up into the final 20 minutes.  I was entertained, so the movie did it’s basic purpose.  But I left the theater unfulfilled.  The plot was thin and lacking.  Things were left unexplained.  And there really was no ‘grand point’ to the movie.  I think Matthew Fox should stick to making TV shows (I am a huge Lost fan so just keep making Lost).  Forrest Whittaker is a great actor, but his liveliness seemed out of place in this movie.  I would not recommend paying to see this in the theater, I’d probably wait until you can borrow it from someone or if you sign up for a free Netflix or Blockbuster trial.  We’ll see this weekend if the Spiderwick Chronicles is any better…