Vantage Point, 12A

Keep it in your codpiece, Henry

In Vantage Point, the US president (William Hurt) is just about to announce a "groundbreaking" anti-terror plan in a Spanish plaza when he's shot by an unseen gunman. The gimmick is that the film replays the action in the minutes before and after the shooting over and over again, showing events as they're seen by a secret service agent (Dennis Quaid), a tourist (Forest Whitaker), a Spanish cop (Eduardo Noriega), and several others.

It's more repetitive than revelatory, and it's certainly not the examination of truth that it sets out to be, so it's a relief when Vantage Point ditches the tricksy structure and gets on with the shoot-outs, car chases and ludicrous twists.