A very satisfactory comic book adaptation

Rating: 8/10 (31 August 2006)

When I was walking out of the theater I heard a viewer saying to his girlfriend "It's not like the comic book at all". This is so not true. I do admit that certain elements that had little to do with V have been omitted, but the gist and the essence of the graphic novel could not be livelier in the film. Very few written materials are filmable page by page. Alan Moore apparently was not pleased with the script and decided to distance himself from the movie. He could not have been more unfair. Natalie Portman's performance may have been called unconvincing but I disagree, she does portray the "imprisoned" ,according to V, Eve well and Hugo Weaving has done a good job of being the enigmatic V whose lines are so lyrical and cleverly written. Yes the ending has been changed but that works to the story's advantage, it shows the grandeur of V's influence and that he has truly freed the English. In summary V for Vendetta is a well written comic book movie which does honor the novel.