Amazing!

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2006)

This movie has, rather appropriately, supplanted The Matrix as my favourite. Although I have never read the original V for Vendetta, the Orwellian feeling of the movie is excellently produced. England, and especially London, as it might appear as a totalitarian state has been beautifully rendered. Those who are familiar with the city might find a number a recognizable landmarks subtly altered to match their role in an England with overbearing government. These similarities with present day, as well as timely references to "terrorism," make the film highly relevant.
The various elements really come together to make this one of the better movies I have seen in some time. The well put together story makes the film easy to follow, but the camera work is also very well done, and the soundtrack is rather catchy, as well. The script is first rate, and one of the initial scenes has a monologue containing alliteration the likes of which I have not heard since Melville finished Moby Dick.
Altogther, I feel that this movie entirely accomplishes what it, and its originating story, set out to do. Viewers will come away pondering the dangers of placing too much faith and subsequent control in the hands of the government. The jabs taken at the Church are a little antagonistic, but well aimed and not entirely inaccurate. Too, the sheer amount of blood spilled in one or two scenes isn't entirely necessary, but this is not enough to damn what is otherwise an incredibly well done film.