When I heard about the premise of this film, I thought it sounded interesting and ambitious: the same exciting moment in time as seen from several different points of view. The American president gets assasinated while preparing to give a speech in a public square in Spain. The same half hour or so is seen through the eyes of a news producer (Sigourney Weaver) and her reporter, a Secret Service Agent (Dennis Quaid), an onlooker (Forrest Whitaker) in the crowd assembled to watch the speech, and several of the people involved in plotting to kill the president. Because of all the intense action and different points of view, we rarely see exactly the same thing, so the film isn't boring at all. But there are several aspects of the movie that are very far-fetched. (I can't say what without putting spoilers into the review, so please take my word on this)! However the thing that really bothered me about this is that we spend half the movie watching the bad guys, and we never really understand any of their motivation for their actions. For instance, after shooting the president, there are two explosions near his podium that really only harm the onlookers. Even at the end of the movie, there's only one line that even attempts to explain the wherefores of all that we've just watched, so for me the film is really unsatisfying. Its saving graces are the well done action sequences and the performances of Dennis Quaid and Forrest Whitaker, as well as one of the good guys who's been roped into being one of the assassins by the kidnapping of a family member - again, far fetched.
If you like action movies with very little heart, or you're a big fan of Dennis Quaid or Forrest Whitaker, buy the movie. Otherwise, I can't really recommend it. The aforementioned fine performances are the only thing that brought this above a two star review from me.
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