"V For Vendetta: The Prequel". Strictly for the reality-challenged.

Rating: Null/10 (18 March 2008)

"It is the year 2006 (not 2027), and the dumbing down process is nearly complete. Moronic children of moronic men have gathered to make the ultimate left-wing propaganda film masked as a futuristic thriller. The masses loved it; they are brainwashed sheep, their average IQ having sunk considerably in recent generations.."
This might as well have been titled "V For Vendetta 2"; the same kind of thinly-veiled pro-terrorist message, a Far-Right Britain of the future, and some truly bad acting.
The question isn't why everyone has become sterile (except the animals - why??) but who has produced the lovely low-IQ individuals who created this mess. Wasn't this the director who did "Harry Potter 3"? (I saw interviews with the man on that DVD; he seems very wide-eyed, very silly, and not too bright.) The terrorists are the good guys. The Iraq war was a mistake. The government hates you. It lies every time. And fundamentalist Islam is harmless. So what else is new from Marxists who side with other extremists while opposing the much-hated Capitalist West (that gave them the opportunity to make this crap in the first place)? And just like "V For Vomit", this propagandist left-wing trash saddles this supposed "future" with so many present-day issues that it made me wonder: why bother pretending this is about the future? Why not just set it in 2006 and spell it out loud and clear: WE HATE America, CAPITALISM & GLOBALISM. VOTE LEFT. That should be the movie's marketing punchline. However, marketing in its essence is dishonest, and directors always prefer to send out their political messages sneakily.
The world today has a major problem with over-population, yet this "reality-based", "serious" futuristic thriller drama wants us to buy the extremely far-fetched, cockamamie premise about mass sterility - and EVERYONE has got it! (Well, except the joke-spewing black girl...) Has some mysterious gas entered all of femalekind's genitals, chocking all the eggs - while cleverly avoiding damaging the genitals of the world of fauna?... A THINKING gas: a Cuaron gas. (Or maybe someone just f****d very hard...)
I laughed during the very first scene, and then wondered if this wasn't a comedy after all. The bit about the youngest man on Earth getting killed because he refused to sign an autograph had something distinctly pythonesque about it: a bleak future, dark colors - and then this nonsense on the news! Very funny, indeed. I laughed on other occasions, too; especially hilarious were the various looters, rock-throwers and the like. They were filmed with such UNauthenticity. There was an old, imprisoned woman talking in Serbo-Croatian, which was also very funny, and only seconds later an old woman complained in German about being "placed to stand next to a n**ger". Awful. Also very funny were Owen and the two women running away from the terrorists; so unconvincing... Plus the cretinous dialog, which permeates the entire movie, offers several amusing moments. The idiotic sterility premise would have been a good basis for an "Idiocracy"-type comedy, but THIS?? Give me a break. COM is somewhat influenced by "Brazil". However, that movie is a dark comedy, which is a far more effective approach.
"Morons Of Men" was based on a novel. Let me guess: "The Independent", "The Guardian", "Liberation", "Berliner Zeitung", and other Leftist dailies gave it rave reviews. Right? No: left.
The entire movie is loaded with paranoid cliché nonsense: "the government did this, the government does that", etc. The movie reeks of cretinous conspiracy theories, much in the "they are hiding a UFO", "Bush is Al-Qaida's friend", or "masons are controlling the world" vein. Food for the gullible and the illiterate. The people who conceived this dull, inept and unintentionally funny political drama are counting on the anti-Iraq-war, anti-globalism sentiments propagated in the media - especially by the likes of the BBC. Hence to portray the BBC as a tool of a Right-wing government is laughable (wouldn't even work in a spoof). Maybe in 1000 years, but certainly not in the near future - mass sterility or not.
Besides, if anything then Britain is more likely to become Marxist in several decades, rather than Right-wing, what with the leftist media's very successful brainwashing of most Europeans and half of America. In other words, if you're looking for extreme scenarios in the year 2027, then this one is far more likely: a Leftist tyranny fighting the problem of OVER-population (and not the other way around).
However, all is not bleak in the world of COM: Julianne "Ping-Pong" Moore gets killed off after only 30 minutes. I was overjoyed by this twist, because I was afraid I might have to watch her for the duration. Miscasting her as a leftist guerrilla leader in COM is even worse than her playing a porn bimbo in "Boogie Nights". And some serious leader she is! While driving with Owen and the pregnant girl she plays a silly game using a ping-pong ball, instead of looking out for danger, which evidently lurks at every corner in this ill-conceived world. If only Bin Laden were this incompetent and childish... (Maybe he is! Maybe we should give him ping-pong balls to play with as a distraction. It worked with Moore...)
A long-haired Michael Caine, who embarrasses himself here like never before, often said that he'd do almost any movie for a substantial amount of cash. COM is a perfect example of this approach. After old fogies like Connery and Hopkins got silly long grey wigs to wear, why did they have to make Caine look stupid that way, too?
If a movie like COM is liked by most people, then perhaps mankind truly deserves to become sterile by 2027 - or much earlier...