Vantage Point: Difference between revisions
Vantage Point: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Vantage Point: Difference between revisions
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Enrique reloads his Beretta.]]
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Enrique reloads his Beretta.]]
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Suarez ([[Saïd Taghmaoui]]) gives Veronica ([[Ayelet Zurer]]) his Beretta to execute their hostage. Note the plain Bruni grips on this model.]]
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Suarez ([[Saïd Taghmaoui]]) gives Veronica ([[Ayelet Zurer]]) his Beretta to execute their hostage. Note the plain Bruni grips on this model.]]
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Veronica aims her Beretta at the hostage but is unable to fire.]]
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Veronica ([[Ayelet Zurer]]) aims her Beretta at the hostage but is unable to fire.]]
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Agent Taylor and two USSS agents inspect the room with the sniper rifle in it armed with Berettas.]]
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-5.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Agent Taylor and two USSS agents inspect the room with the sniper rifle in it armed with Berettas.]]
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Javier ([[Edgar Ramirez]]) aims his Beretta while disguised as a Spanish police officer.]]
[[Image:VP-BruniBeretta-6.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Javier ([[Edgar Ramirez]]) aims his Beretta while disguised as a Spanish police officer.]]
Revision as of 08:54, 10 September 2010
The following guns were used in the movie Vantage Point:
WARNING: This page contains images and plot descriptions with spoilers.
Vantage Point is a 2008 action thriller focusing on an assassination attempt on the President of the United States Henry Ashton (William Hurt) as he promotes a treaty to fight international terrorism in Salamanca, Spain told from the different view points of Global News Network producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver), United States Secret Service Agents Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox), American tourist Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker), Spanish police officer Enrique (Eduardo Noriega), deadly terrorists Suarez (Saïd Taghmaoui) and Veronica (Ayelet Zurer), and blackmailed former special forces member Javier (Edgar Ramirez). Due to principal filming being done in Mexico City, a number of the firearms in the film (notably the Beretta 92FS pistols) are reproduction blank replicas instead of blank-converted registered firearms, likely due to lack of availability.
The issued sidearm of USSS agent Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) is a SIG-Sauer P229 pistol chambered in 9x19mm, instead of the correct .357 SIG ammunition chambered for the real life USSS SIG pistols.
The most commonly used gun in the film is the Beretta 92FS pistol, seen carried by Spanish police officer Enrique (Eduardo Noriega), as well as all of the terrorists in the film. USSS Agent Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) is curious seen using a Beretta as his sidearm, instead of the correct SIG-Sauer P229 pistol typically issued to Secret Service. Many of the Berettas appear to be Bruni Model 92 8mm stage firing blank replicas. Many of them have the proper Beretta logo grips though, so they could have been installed on the props, or actual Berettas may have been used depending on location of filming.
A Glock 17 with a chrome slide and fitted with a suppressor is used by the former special forces soldier Javier (Edgar Ramirez) when he kidnaps President Ashton (William Hurt).
Heckler & Koch MP5A2 Navy submachine guns are seen throughout the film in the hands of Spanish police officers, some seen with two magazines clamped together.
