Never read the graphic novels and loved this film

Rating: 9/10 (27 March 2006)

I watched this after seeing The Hills Have Eyes Remake, but V delivered a very different type of blow to the brain! I have never read the original graphic novel so I was watching it purely to see how well the Wachowskis could move on after The Matrix. The answer? Considering the Matrix was seven years ago this was great. I don't know why fans of the graphic novel are so hacked off, if a lot more people like me will now go and buy the book. IF it's true that V takes off his mask in the comic, I'm glad they made that change in the film so that we never see him. It boosts Hugo Weaving's performance as does the lesser amount of action in this film vs The Matrix movies - then again this is set in a fictionalised version of a real place, where even in spite of the bombings and shooting of 2005, it would've been an unrealistic distraction to have as much action as an American-set film.
So good movie and a highly likely DVD Buy as well as the graphic novel itself. It's nice to know films designed to make you think don't stop getting released once the Oscars are finished. Predictably the messengers are getting shot in real life but who cares, the debate's not going to stop in modern times.