One of the most pedantic, unengaging, and insufferable films I can remember

Rating: 2/10 (1 September 2006)

As one who is deeply concerned about the lack of critical, independent thinking amongst proponents and adherents of right wing ideology, and the disturbing willingness of its followers to fall prey to demagoguery, I am particularly disturbed and shocked to see this film rated with the likes of The Graduate and Platoon. I can attribute this only to a commensurate lack of critical thinking, and an understandable desperation due to current events, on the part of the left, to whom this film obviously appeals.
V is one of the most pedantic, unengaging, and insufferable films I can remember, yet it is described in the most glowing terms by fellow reviewers. Meanwhile, my spouse - who, by the way, has fine lefty credentials stretching back many years - sat through the end only to avoid completely wasting two hours of time without the "satisfaction" of seeing the finale. I fought sleep the entire way through.
Despite its aspirations to intellectual and emotional depth, its characters are paper-thin and barely sympathetic, if at all. The plot is so predictable as to make the entire middle of the film unnecessary, given that it did such a poor job of character development. In the end - of the film and in final analysis, the film is as preachy, trite and altogether intolerable as any propaganda that the right wing could ever hope to produce. I am still shuddering as I think back upon this film.