Don't really see what all the fuss is about

Rating: 5/10 (31 March 2006)

I went and saw V for Vendetta last night and I don't really see why it's doing so well. There we're some exciting moments and the ideologies of the film we're admirable (except for revenge, perhaps), but mostly it seemed a fairly predictable so so movie with some slow motion violence thrown in to distract us from the poor acting (slow motion violence to distract us from a mediocre film from the Wachoskis? Now why does that sound familiar). I did enjoy John Hurt's character for about the first 30 minutes of the film, then he basically became a caricature of himself and was mostly loud and obnoxious for the rest of the movie. I haven't read the V graphic novels, so the movie might be a good adaptation and would be appreciated by the fans but I, for one, really wish I had waited for video.