Completely worthless except for the last ten minutes

Rating: 1/10 (20 March 2006)

The bulk of this movie is a typical Hollywood rant about conservatives, Christianity and the US. The saviors of the day are liberals, artists and gays. God, how cliché! V is a Guy Fawkes wannabe, except that he succeeds where Fawkes failed. If you can call a pointless attack on a building that doesn't even figure into the movie a success.
I had heard that Portman was gorgeous, even when bald in this movie. To me, she looked painfully thin, and not particularly attractive after her head was shaved.
This movie was really lacking in character development. The only one that we really get to know is either behind a mask for the entire movie, or his face is concealed by shadow.
V reveals himself to be a sadist when he puts Portman through something less than a year of torture, purportedly so that she can be free. Personally, I think it was schadenfreude and, in part, payback for her earlier betrayal of him.
The only good part of this movie was the last ten minutes. Apart from the action of those few minutes, the movie droned on, moralizing about Islam (spare me), artists, lesbians and how evil Christians, the US and conservatives are.