Inspector Barnaby meets Phantom of the Opera

Rating: 2/10 (26 March 2006)

Yet another DC Comic made into a movie. And the worst adaptation so far. So lame.
Imagine a cross over between "Inspector Barnaby", "Phantom of the Opera" and "1984" with a shallow and messy story line that just leaves you cold.
Hugo Weaving is a great actor, but even he cannot reach out to the audience from behind a stupid plastic mask. The characters all remain shallow and utterly uninteresting.
Why the lesbian love story? Why does this V guy turn into a top tuned ninja soldier from the virus? Why does the villain have to look like Hitler (yeah, we've got it. He's the bad guy - but come on...)? Why does the officer guess that a train will be used to bomb the parliament? Why do they ride around in 2003 Jaguars in 2026? Why doesn't Dell improve on their LCD flat panels in the next 20 years?
A lot of the people commenting on this movie obviously felt quite revolutionary for a moment. "Yeah,let's go fight... something!" One guy even suggests that "V for Vendetta" might be banned for glorifying terrorism. Oh come on, man! They'll ban "Monsters Inc." before that!
This is not an "important" movie. It's just a piece of pseudo-intellectual nonsense that makes stupid people think they've watched something really thought provoking. A reeaaal subtle comment upon the war on terrorism. Yeah right - subtle as a runaway freight train...