Vantage Point is a 2008 American political action thriller film directed by Pete Travis and written by Barry L. Levy. The story focuses on an assassination attempt on the President of the United States in Salamanca, Spain, as seen from the various vantage points of different characters. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Eduardo Noriega, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver. The film is often compared unfavorably to Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon, which also employed storytelling through multiple perspectives.