A good way to represent the graphic novel

Rating: 9/10 (18 March 2006)

First, I would like to say that this movie is great even though it differs slightly from the graphic novel. Fortunately, the differences did not affect the quality of the general story. I think that the Wachowski brothers did an excellent job of converting this great story into a great movie. Since the graphic novel was so complex, it was necessary to remove some of the sub-stories and supporting characters to appeal to a wider audience. I was a bit upset at how they portrayed Evey. Don't get me wrong, I think that this could be Natalie Portman's strongest role yet, but her character was written quite a bit more shallow than she was portrayed in the book. The same thing could be said about V. Hugo Weaving played the part of V as good, if not better than I expected. But, I still wish that they would have gone a bit more in-depth about his past. While I was watching this movie, I became increasingly concerned with how dumbed-down the ending would be. I was pleasantly surprised that even thought the ending was quite a bit different from the end of the book, that it still preserved the concept of the original story's ending. I definitely recommend seeing this movie, and I would also recommend reading the masterpiece written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd.