Magnificent, Memorable, and Momentous........

Rating: 10/10 (3 May 2006)

A beautiful film. If you expect to see a standard comic book action flick, complete with ridiculously costumed villains, totally implausible storyline, and one-dimensional characters lifted straight off the pages - you will be disappointed. Go rent any standard Hollywood tent pole movie and escape into fantasy land again.
If you want to see something unique and different, a film that offers up ideas and roles that are intense, thought-provoking, and timely, then you will NOT be disappointed.
Most comic book fans tend to be unrealistic in their expectations for films in this genre, expecting to see exactly what is written on the hallowed comic page, and when anything is changed....they erupt into volumes of scathing vitriol about the film. What the Wachowskis did with this movie was make it even better than the graphic novel - they injected life into the persona of V, and humanity, which makes it infinitely more believable for me, as a theater-goer. Possibly the original author meant for this story to be more about ANARCHY than anything else, but the Wachowskis and McTeague brought out something much more poignant and meaningful than a mere political system.
The idea of human freedom.
Which I would hope is more important than CGI, special effects, and the amount of fight/action scenes in a movie.