A full review will soon follow, but this weekend’s heavily hyped Vantage Point is basically something like 1996’s Executive Decision — a malarkey genre picture masquerading as something slightly more “topical” and nuanced. Imagine my bemused surprise, then, when I found that that film’s director, Stuart Baird, actually served as the editor on Vantage Point. Unfortunately, this flick doesn’t really even have the purebred, ridiculous popcorn enjoyment of Executive Decision. Dennis Quaid tries quite hard, and a no-doubt-well-paid Forest Whitaker, William Hurt, Matthew Fox and Sigourney Weaver (in a very small role) are tossed in to try to give the appearance of something smarter and classier than what we really have. The deal-breaker is the script, which isn’t much more than thumbnail-deep, and has an ending with a ludicrous grasp at mock-chilling, conspiratorial hoo-ha.