V for Very Bad

Rating: 5/10 (18 March 2006)

X-Men + 1942 + 911 + Hollywood, in a blender. A puke-fest of misplaced social commentary and hypocritical mixed messages. Pretentious political propaganda hidden behind a mask of all-American dissent. Utterly far-fetched, and disgustingly over dramatized.
I can perhaps see what the writer/director may have been trying to accomplish, but clearly they were visionaries without any sense of tact. England falling under Natzi-Germany-like rule, running concentration-like camps, suddenly transformed into a society without a trace of humanity, is simply not believable except in the context of satire and film noir. But this film tried to be a epic drama. The story's hero, the superhuman masked man whose dialauge was a eloquent riddle of literary exerps, was indeed an entertaining character. We love this hero, despite the fact that he is a terrorist. So is terrorism justified then if your cause is freedom?
All in all, its apparently what the average American audience wants.