Hopefully This Isn't the Future of the World

Rating: 9/10 (8 March 2007)

Hopefully this is not the future of the world that we live in. To watch any movie like V for Vendetta with evil rulers and futuristic totalitarian governments always gives me an edge and feeling of some uneasiness and scariness afterward. In the movie, set in the year 2038 there is a future England ruled by a Fascist dictator in a society similar to that of 20th century Nazi Germany. What is more appalling is that England apparently seems to have re-conquered at least in part the United States which is continually referred to throughout the film as "the former United States". This is definitely an interesting movie to watch but scary to think about in reality.
Overall, this is quite a good film. The idea of a great revolutionary (for I simply refuse to call V a terrorist---- though I will not object to putting that label on the Fascist Norsefire Party) who fights and stands for what's right even in the face of opposition of an evil totalitarian government is certainly makes for a good film. However I'll give it a 9 as it is hard to give any movie like this a 10 because it is scary. Well (hopefully) it's just a movie.