Disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (30 March 2006)

I didn't know it was the Wachowski brothers before I went in and when I saw their names in the credits I thought "ahh, that explains the pretentiousness."
This movie was a bit disappointing. I liked it up until the torture/false imprisonment sequence. That's when it just started falling apart. The problem with this sequence is they sacrificed telling the story for making a point, and one that wasn't even all that believable and quite lame to be honest. Then, after that the Wachowski brothers thought "Oh crap, we need some romantic interest, let's have them dance." That and the kiss were just plain, good ole fashioned stupid. Then, that whole bit when Evey said V was her "father, mother, friend. He's you, he's me, he's all of us." Gag me, please! My best guess (as it was such bad writing in that moment) was that they were trying to make a point about the nature of V somehow being in the nature of us all. Just another load of Wachowski pretension.
And do we really need to see V coming out of the fire 19 times?
And this: Evey Hammond: I don't want you to die. V: That is the most beautiful thing you could have ever given me. was the lamest death scene I think I might have ever seen. This scene was also quite emotionally ineffective because long before this, I not only didn't care if V died, I wanted him to. I was kind of hoping Evey would do it actually.
In the end, it was disappointing, because I really did like most of the first 2/3 or so of the film and thought it had a lot of potential.