The premise behind Vantage Point is intriguing: One story told from several perspectives, each one giving a new insight to unravel what has happened. All right, so it's Rashomon again, but this time it involves the assassination and later kidnapping of the President of the United States. Yes, you read that correctly, and while that point will be cleared up in the viewing, the movie only brings up more head-scratching problems. The biggest one: It cheats. It cheats with its concept of unique perspectives. It cheats with the way information is revealed. Basically, it cheats with its narrative gimmick, the only thing that actually separates this material from any of the countless other similar fare from which it so liberally borrows.