Vantage Point starts Friday! Here are some good links to get you ready:

• MovieWeb has six video clips, five video interviews and two TV spots uploaded.
• Yahoo! Movies has 2 exclusive clips from the movie.
• Trailer Addict has a behind-the-scenes on the making of the film.
• Keep your eyes on Rotten Tomatoes to see how the critics feel about Vantage Point. As of this posting, only 3 critics have posted.
• Visit the official Vantage Point website.
• Find out where Vantage Point is playing in your area.

Matthew Fox lets his roles in Vantage Point and Lost speak for themselves

Bob Thompson,  National Post 

Matthew Fox is in denial. It’s not that he refuses to face up to facts, he just can’t reveal stuff. Certainly, Fox has to stay quiet over the developing plot points of the hit series Lost. And now he’s being sly concerning information on the Wachowski brothers sci-fifilm Speed Racer, which is set for a spring opening. In fact, he can’t say much about his role in the political thriller Vantage Point, either.

The movie, opening on Friday, has Fox and Dennis Quaid portraying secret service agents who are protecting the president of the United States at an international function. After the president is assassinated, the incident is retold from eight different points of view, revealing much more than was initially evident.

Fox hopes the film does well at the box office because he thinks the thriller is entertaining and comes with a clear cautionary message.

“It’s unbelievable to me–and this is at the core of the film–how many people walk around in this world thinking their version of reality is the only one that’s right,” the actor says.

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LOS ANGELES — Smoke monsters? Ghosts? Pirates? Renegade researchers experimenting with wormholes and polar bears?

All minor headaches compared to the thorniest threat Matthew Fox and his fellow Lost castaways have faced: Namely, fickle fair-weather fans.

“Those were all bandwagon jumpers. Those were the people who would not have been Lost fans to begin with,” says Fox of the millions of viewers who bailed during the stormy sophomore season and had many observers wondering if the phenomenally-popular series would ever regain its momentum.

“We won the Emmy. We won the Golden Globe — and then we had a whole bunch of people jump on just because they couldn’t stand being left out and they weren’t really Lost fans to begin with.

“And they all went away.”

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LOS ANGELES — Count reclusive Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski among Lost’s obsessive fans.

So when it came time to cast the role of mystery man Racer X in their adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime series Speed Racer, they naturally braked for Matthew Fox.

“I didn’t know Speed Racer at all,” Fox admits. “I went into the meeting (with the Wachowskis) never knowing anything about Speed Racer. I wanted to work with the Wachowskis. That meeting went great and I went home with a script and I got the source material and watched a lot of Speed Racer. And the script blew me away. Then I went after the role. I went back to L.A. and I really went after it. I wanted it.”

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