commercial movie

Rating: 6/10 (28 March 2006)

I give the movie V for Vendetta a 6/10. It was okay but it's not top notch or superb. I will say that I like the message the movie is trying to send, I like the direction it's trying to go. An oppressing world controlled by the government and here comes along a man, V, who has the will to stand up to them. The director tried to go for something more profound but I think the movie fell short of that. V for Vendetta is a movie that is easily commercial but tries goes for the more profound spectrum of commercial; that I give some credit. In the end it's a movie that you kind of like but it's nothing much to offer in the end.
The acting was okay, nothing exceptional (not that I was expecting anything more or anything less). The guy who played V, Hugo Weaving, tried to be a man of thought and a man of ideas but I felt he did not execute the role as well as it should've been. The message he was trying to send was mostly blurred by the tone of his voice. He was trying to hard to be this man of influence. If he could ease the accent a little more, then it might have been executed better. Natalie Portman did the best she could, better than I thought she would. However, her acting did not suit this moviein a way it hindered it because she was far too weak for this role. I thought it was a good choice in the ending to not reveal V's face, because of that it provided more leverage to the movie.
One of the scenes I like in the movie was when all the citizens are marching in masses wearing the V mask. That was a good scene. However, the ending was quite weak. It was trying to portray that blowing up parliament was the solution to everything. Practically the last portion of the movie came down to that moment. One can make the argument that it was symbolic, but the impressions that I got was that it was trying to glamorize blowing up the building. The ending fell short. Anyone who knows how politics work knows that blowing the parliament building was anything but the end. Anyone who knows about politics knows that blowing up the parliament building was just the beginning of something greater. The ending would have been more effective had the movie elaborated more on that. It was like "okay the building is blown up to smithereens now it's over. The End." Instead, Evey says she will never forget V and she will never forget Nov. the 5th . something of that nature. I like in the beginning it starts out talking about ideology being something you cannot taste something you cannot defeatsomething of that nature. But the ending was more about remembering a man and a particular day than what he STOOD for and his IDEAS. It would have been nice if the end had been not just about a man or a particular day, but on a more larger scale. I credit the writer for adding more layers to V, making him more human in his actions. Despite that, the movie glamorizes V rather than his ideas.that's why it's a commercial movie. This movie has very good ideas and a good sense of direction but did not execute. V for Vendetta is a movie I would generalize for teenies and young adults. A movie for entertainment.
ON ANOTHER NOTE: I heard this was a movie controversial but going into the movie I did not see anything controversial nor did I associate the movie with the U.S. at all. I saw absolutely nothing controversial about it until I came to this site and heard people compare this movie to the U.S government. I can now see why people are comparing VfV to the U.S society as an "eye opener." Whiter or not that is the intentions of this movie, throughout the time while watching the movie that did not even cross my mind. Others' have rated this movie according to the disliking of a particular government. My review has nothing to do with politics, nor government associations, nor my political stance. My review is SPECIFICALLY based on the movie itself, nothing else.