Great story, well executed

Rating: 9/10 (18 August 2006)

From screenwriters and assistant director of the Matrix trilogy, comes an interesting movie that depicts England in near future. If you expect to see people using cool gadgets or driving flying cars, people eating each other, Aliens ruling the earth, or humans become mutants, you will be disappointed. The movie does focus on the political aspects that may happen in the future and in a very convincing way. West has become middle east. Totalitarianism rules Great Britain and freedom has been suppressed viciously. London is ready to explode waiting for a spark. "V", the revolutionary fighter, delivers that spark. This is the story of uprising against tyranny, unity, love, and revenge. V for Vendetta is a combination of Phantom of the opera, Batman, 12 Monkeys, and Matrix but in a good way. It has couple of cool semi-Matrix-like action scenes with lots of twists and an interesting love story. Screen play is strong, performances are brilliant, and it's a great debut for James McTeigue as a director (assistant director of Matrix and Star Wars-Episode II).