a totalitarian government state of the future

Rating: 6/10 (25 March 2007)

V for Vendetta is a pretty good movie.before watching it,i had no interest,just based on the trailers i had seen.but,it was on one of the movie channels,so i thought i'd give it a try.turns out,it is a much better movie than i thought it would be.it's basically set in the future,with a fascist European government and a terrorist(or freedom fighter,depending on your viewpoint)dressed as Guy Fawkes,a revolutionary in the 17th century,who tried to blow up the Parliament building)has for some time killing high level people in government and others from his past.his ultimate goal:to blow up the parliament buildings on the same date that Guy Fawkes had attempted,hundreds of years earlier.it sounds like it would be a bleak scenario,but the movie itself didn't seem bleak to me.there's lots of action,and there is some violence,but most of it is almost cartoonish(deliberately,i think)which makes it seem less graphic.the movie is certainly thought provoking,but it is also entertaining.for me,V for Vendetta is an 8.5/10