Made me like Natalie Portman again

Rating: 9/10 (1 April 2006)

I knew this movie was gonna rock, when I saw that the screenplay was by the Wachowski brothers. I generally like any comic made into a movie, so u can call me biased. (although i didn't really (totally) like spiderman, (there was no funny stuff...)). anyway, getting back to V.
The moment the movie starts it just captures your attention. AWESOME, the appearance of V(although looks like a new age ZOrro), was just breathtaking, its just not the, cool guy coming in with his nothing to lose attitude, its the quoting of Shakespeare and the way of talking that only HUgo can deliver. I was clapping and whistling like a mad man, when he finishes beating up the bad guys and starts talking in all V's. OH MAN ! ! ! ! ! and natalie portman, I hated her from I don't know when, its like those people that u don't know anything about, but happen upon all the time, after some time there's this animosity between you(another of the seinfeld effects). Then, I saw her in this movie, and it was like, hey this girls good, but hey isn't she natalie, I would have hated her thin look in any other movie, but in this movie, she was just sooooooooooo cute.
i cant say she was hot but for that one scene, as a school girl with pig tails, i was laughing so hard, man, the whole situation, the Bishop going on about how he ever doubted her beauty, and even when she tells him that V is coming to kill him, "oh, wonderful, i like this game"....
getting back to the story, in the future, in this future, there are no flying cars, no high tech gizmos, nothing, you don't even wonder about all those when watching this movie, its a more realistic future, than all the other versions Hollywood throws at us.
America is no longer the big brother, Britain has become this totalitarian place, by the course of the movie we find out that we are living in a place where we are assured peace, as long as we follow the rules, rules broken, people dead. of course, sounds like the same old same old, but hey, this one looks really thought thru.
So along comes V. this guy has his own personal vendetta against those who created this government, the party if u will. the party members, the chancellor. although his history is not really clear, we can relate to him as the lone ranger kinda guy. and the girl, who is always afraid (the average person), somehows tangles up with him, Coincidence??? ANd stephen rea, the cop who everybody writes off, but is always clued in, was perfect. this movie may sound like any other movie based on future and revolution and revenge. BUt somehow, somehow, this one hits the mark.
I urge everyone to watch this movie, its just awesome, I didn't really expect this movie to be so good.