This movie squanders a perfectly good cast on a boring gimmick that adds nothing to the story and is irritatingly repetitive.The President of the United States (William Hurt) is shot on live TV while giving a speech in Spain shortly before the event is also bombed. His Secret Service agent (Dennis Quaid), a tourist with a camcorder (Forest Whitaker), a Spanish cop (Eduardo Noriega), and the TV producer (Sigourney Weaver) all have different perspectives of the attack which must be strung together to make a comprehensive picture.
Except they don't and what you see is the exact same event told over and over again from people you have no reason to care about. There's no character development because everything is a series of flashbacks so all you see are character rewinds. It's almost like Groundhog Day but the clock keeps getting reset earlier and earlier while the end result never changes. An irritating film and one worth going out of your way to avoid.
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