National Treasure Vantage Point

Just finished up two Blu-ray movies from Netflix. Here are my quick thoughts about the two:

• National Treasure 2:  I really like the first movie.  At points, the first movie stretched my suspension of disbelief, but it was fun enough that I did not care.  The sequel is a boring mess which was not that much fun to watch and really killed my suspesion of disbelief.  I really hope they don't make another National Treasure sequel (though the whole "page 47" thing hints at one).  The Ed Harris character was too underdeveloped to be hated and by the end of the film, I really could care less about him.  What the President did in the middle of the movie did not jive with what he did at the end.  Why did he not say what he said at the end of the movie early on so that the FBI would stop chasing after Nicolas Cage's character?  Oh, sorry, it is because it was a lazy badly written plot-device.  It was neat to see Cage and Harris in another Bruckheimer produced movie ( the last one I remember was The Rock).  There was even a subtle cameo by the "Hey you stole my Hummer" guy in National Treasure 2.  Overall, bad movie.  Skip it, save your time.
• Vantage Point:  Vantage Point is to Rashomon what Store-brand Cola is to Coca-Cola.  Sure, the Store-brand is supposed to taste like Coca-Cola, but it doesn't.  Vantage Point has the same multiple perspectives type setup as Rashomon, but the writer of Vantage Point does not use that storytelling style (here in Vantage Point, it's really a gimmick) to any good use.  In Rashomon, each POV presents a slightly different view of the story, based on the flawed memory of the character recounting the story.  In Vantage Point, the different views of the story are exactly the same -- and since that is the case, watching the same 23 minutes of story five times is a waste of time.  The underlying story is standard-fare B-movie "thriller" material -- and that is why I suspect the movie-makers decided to go with the multiple-POV gimmick.  Another movie to skip.  On a related note, the BD Live content on the Vantage Point Blu-ray disc failed to work for me.  Anyone have luck getting it to work?