A movie experience like haven't had since, well, never

Rating: 10/10 (28 March 2006)

I saw V for V two days ago and still find myself spellbound - by all of its elements and how freshly and interestingly and movingly they were put together.
For a "futuristic" movie, there was zero tired technological razzle-dazzle (lots of points for that alone!) It was instead quite consciously old-fashioned and elemental.
Hugo Weaving created an unbelievably complex and magnificent hero for the age and the ages, with only his voice and his moves, an accomplishment nothing short of incredible. He literally makes your eyes forget the mask they're seeing and forces your brain into a depth of imagination that people haven't had to do since the days of radio dramas.
V's combination of kickass physicality, literary erudition, and general panache reminded me a lot of Cyrano de Bergerac - another heroic figure who had to hide himself.
I was hooked, shocked, and totally into the ride from the Old Bailey blowup. That scene did a great job of making us all Evie in an instant. Beautiful use of music throughout btw.
Just awesome. Its digressions were more interesting than most movies' points. Its flaws were obvious and forgivable.
The most in-your-face Bush regime parallel - all the repressive-infrastructure things that had the motto "for your own protection" on them.
It was also a truly lovely romance on more than one level. I didn't like how they wrecked the elegance of the less-is-more between V and Evie with his soap-opera confession of love in the train station - but her kissing the mask - which should have been hokey - was heartbreaking and real.
LOVED IT. Could go on and on. Will see it at least one more time and probably more. So glad I saw it on the big screen.
I wonder how many of the negative reviews here are from actually seeing the movie as opposed to dutifully parroting right wing radio talking points.