Brilliant

Rating: 10/10 (26 March 2006)

Ever since I started reading about this movie I really wanted to see it. Then it got slapped with the R rating. I'm fifteen and my parents kind of have a stricter policy for R rated movies, and I figured that neither of them would want to see it. So last night I went to the theater under the guise of seeing She's the Man and instead went to V for Vendetta. I was utterly blown away. It was stylish, eloquent, funny, suspenseful, well acted, and well done. Hugo Weaving creates a mysterious vigilante in the harlequin-masked V. Natalie Portman does a good job as Evey, who wakes up from her fear upon meeting V. All in all, it was a great movie that I very much enjoyed. I will definitely be going in for a second viewing. It also holds a special place with me, as it is the first R rated movie that I've snuck in to.