Vantage Point (2008)

Director: Pete Travis

Writer: Barry Levy

Release Date: 15 February 2008 (USA)

Cast:
Dennis Quaid (Thomas Barnes)
Forest Whitaker (Howard Lewis)
William Hurt (President Ashton)

President Ashton (William Hurt) is attending a global war on terror summit in Spain. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two of the Secret Service agents assigned to protect him. This is the first action that Agent Barnes has been in since he took a bullet for President Ashton six-month earlier.

We really don't know if Agent Barnes is up to the challenge of protecting the President. Shortly after President Ashton is escorted to the stage in the plaza by the Secret Service, he is immediately shot twice by a rifle from a window and falls to the floor.

The crowd is in shock and chaos breaks out all over, especially, when bombs begin to explode. Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) is an American video-taping the event to show to his children that he was actually there at this historic event. He believes that he has the picture of the man who shot the President.

Agent Barnes sees the tape and has a clue to that person. Several different people witness the event, and only through their eyes do we see the truth behind the assassination attempt.

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Untraceable (2008)

Director:
Gregory Hoblit

Writers:
Robert Fyvolent
Mark Brinker

Release Date:
25 January 2008 (USA)

Cast:
Diane Lane (Jennifer Marsh)
Colin Hanks (Griffin Dowd)
Billy Burke (Eric Box)

A cyber killer has finally found the perfect accomplice: You.

A secret service agent, Jennifer Marsh, gets caught in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer who knows that people (being what they are - both curious and drawn to the dark side of things) will log onto an "untraceable" website where he conducts violent and painful murders LIVE on the net. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies.

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Rambo (2008)

Director:
Sylvester Stallone

Writers:
Art Monterastelli
Kevin Bernhardt

Release Date:
25 January 2008 (USA)

Cast:
Sylvester Stallone (John J. Rambo)
Julie Benz (Sarah Miller)
Matthew Marsden (Mercenary)

Vietnam veteran, John Rambo has survived many harrowing ordeals in his lifetime and has since withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand, where he spends his time capturing snakes for local entertainers, and chauffeuring locals in his old PT boat.

Even though he is looking to avoid trouble, trouble has a way of finding him: a group of Christian human rights missionaries, led by Michael Burnett and Sarah Miller, approach Rambo with the desire to rent his boat to travel up the river to Burma. For over fifty years, Burma has been a war zone.

The Karen people of the region, who consist of peasants and farmers, have endured brutally oppressive rule from the murderous Burmese military and have been struggling for survival every single day. After some inner contemplation, Rambo accepts the offer and takes Michael, Sarah, and the rest of the missionaries up the river.

When the missionaries finally arrive at the Karen village, they find themselves part of a raid by the sadistic Major Pa Tee Tint and a slew of Burmese army men. A portion of the villagers and missionaries are tortured and viciously murdered, while Tint and his men hold the remainder captive.

Concerned by their disappearance, the minister in charge of the mission gathers a group of mercenaries and pleas Rambo transport them with his boat, since he knows their last exact location. But Rambo can't stay behind: he joins the team where he belongs, to liberate the survivors from the clutches of Major Tint in what may be one of his deadliest missions ever.

The Eye (2008)

Directors:
David Moreau
Xavier Palud

Writers:
Sebastian Gutierrez
Jo Jo Yuet-chun Hui

Release Date:
1 February 2008 (USA)

Cast:
Jessica Alba (Sydney Wells)
Parker Posey (Helen Wells)
Rachel Ticotin (Rosa Martinez)

Sydney, a young, blind violinist is given the chance to see for the first time since childhood through a miraculous corneal transplant. As Sydney adjusts to a dizzying new world of colors and shapes, she is haunted by frightening visions of death itself capturing the doomed and dragging them away from the world of the living. Terrorized and on the brink of insanity, Sydney must discover whose eyes she has inherited, and what secret visions they have held.

27 Dresses (2008)

Director:
Anne Fletcher

Writer:
Aline Brosh McKenna

Release Date:
11 January 2008 (USA)

Cast:
Katherine Heigl (Jane)
Malin Akerman (Tess)
James Marsden (Kevin)

After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman (Heigl) wrestles with the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man she's secretly in love with.