A thought provoking movie that'll have people asking questions

Rating: 8/10 (18 March 2006)

V for Vendetta was a well made film with quality acting. It was also thought provoking and will make you wonder about your own government.
V stars Hugo Weaving as a vigilante that wears a Fawkes mask and uses tactics which resemble terrorism to fight back against the totalitarian government that controls Britain. He also uses television to let the country's population understand that the government they allow to control them is wrong. He wants people to know that it was their fear which created this dictatorship government that has taken away their rights, and now he wants them to stop being afraid.
He is not alone however. For a young woman (Natalie Portman), whom he saves from imprisonment, becomes a sort of ally in his quest to destroy the government so that people will no longer live in fear an oppression. She doubts him at first, and it takes awhile for her to ally with him, but she finally does, and the story goes from there.
It's been awhile since I've seen a movie as thought provoking as this one. Mind you I haven't seen Crash or any of the other Oscar nominated films, but I digress. Let's just say that V for Vendetta will have viewers questioning authority and maybe open some eyes to what is going on around them. I'm sure many will think that this movie is a bashing of the Bush administration, but don't let that fool you. It's talking about the possibility that any government, no matter what country, can become out of control if its people allow it.
Besides quality acting, V moves at a good pace. I did not once get bored watching it. The director James McTeigue never allows the movie to get dull even during the more quiet scenes.
The Wachowski brothers, who created another future world with the extremely popular Matrix trilogy, have themselves another winner here. They really know how to get an audience thinking about the real world around them and start questioning the way things are being done. You really can't ask for more.
The visuals are pretty hard to comment on. They were decent enough, but sometimes things moved so fast, that it made it hard to really give an opinion about them. But I was not disappointed with what I saw.
V for Vendetta is definitely a very good movie. It is one I would highly recommend to anybody who has ever questioned the way things are done when it comes to those governing them.