M for Misconceived

Rating: 3/10 (27 February 2007)

V FOR VENDETTA is one seriously misconceived movie.
It has so many plot-holes (re: the way the film conceives a totalitarian world; civil war in the US, etc) that I could not get into it at all.
It had so many silly scenes (the Benny Hill bit for example) which took me out completely from the film, and I just couldn't get into it.
The whole thing is so blatantly derivative of other sources (Orwell's 1984, obviously...and THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES, just to name a few...) that I simply couldn't get into it.
The film is so cheap looking (High concept movies on a low budget never work) that I simply couldn't get into it.
The characters were so annoying or one dimensional, or so few, that I couldn't get into it.
The plot points are so sketchy (Natalie being kidnapped and brainwashed...with that treacly "love letters" story; the moment when V has to murder that nurse) that I just couldn't get into it at all.
The acting was so stilted and barely there that I just couldn't get into it.
The action scenes were so ridiculously conceived (the moment when V throws the knives in slow motion at the policemen) that I simply could not get into it.
The ending is so derivative of SPARTACUS that, even by the end of the movie, I still could not get into V FOR VENDETTA.
But mainly because the intellect behind this film is so juvenile and obvious ( a teen version of 1984?) that I will categorically never get into this seriously misconceived flick EVER.
Almost as bad as the equally misconceived EQUILIBRIUM.