best Wachowski so far

Rating: 10/10 (18 September 2009)

"remember, remember the 5th of November" A great movie in every direction - great acting, wonderful pictures, beautiful dialogs and monologues :) and of course there is the political statement this movie makes - very brave and very to the point this movie came just in time, as a mirror before our faces: in the near future war tear the world apart, the USA ends in a big civil war falling to a third world country status and england manages to escape this. but at what price? a Nazi-like regime reigns there, unstoppable, corrupt, inhuman. but still there is the idea of humanity, people-rights, justice, which refuses to die. with a beautiful sense for the dramatic part a man, incorporating this idea does everything in his power to awaken the people. he is strongly stylized but still he is a human, no saint like so many comic-super-heroes, which prevents the movie from slipping in the wrong direction.
and in the end, the power is, as it always was but was not always realized, in the hands of the people.
and how far away is this from our current situation i would like to ask? this is for sure the best Wachowski-movie for now. i was afraid after the second matrix that they will not manage anything like the first one again, but i was wrong - this one is far better. one of the greatest comic based movies, one of the greatest movies build on a political statement.
V -- "But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty you need only look into a mirror."