When a Presidential assassination is told through five different perspectives – no it’s not a JFK redo – we figure out how perception, advantage and the unexpected can affect the outcome of a plot-to-kill gone wrong. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) is a Secret Service guy with a bad track record to President Ashton (William Hurt.) And then there’s the Spanish terrorists, spies, police, a little girl eating an ice cream cone, her hysterical mother and finally the quintessential tourist, Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) just taking in the sites on his camcorder and recording – by accident – the entire incident. An unexpectedly smart movie whose hardest job in filming had to be the Script Supervisors. Yet despite its often de ja vu “Groundhog Day” similarities, you’ll be glued to each reenactment right down to whether or not the President is really dead in the end. Three tiaras
