Brilliant!

Rating: 10/10 (16 May 2006)

Not being a fan of the Matrix films, which in the sequels are overdone bores, I took the Wachowski's doing this with a grain of salt. I am happy to say I was totally surprised and enthralled with V, which was, 70 percent true to the graphic novel (which is honestly, a bit dated here and there). The casting was superb! Hugo Weaving had the perfect voice for V and Natalie Portman (who one critic dismissed as eye candy, obviously sleeping through the film) was excellent as Evey, around whom the story really revolves. The look of future London was excellent and I'm glad to see that they didn't dumb this down; it was quite paranoid and dark as it should have been. V's words to the wise, "People shouldn't fear their governments, government's should fear their people." are words we in democracies should remember and live by.