Disappointing

Rating: 1/10 (29 September 2006)

Although an interesting premise I did find this movie very gooey and heavy. Natalie portman was good despite her accent her acting was superb but V himself made me shudder with flowery over-the-top word usage, as if the director felt we needed V to go into endless Soliloquy's to define his personality. Then with the "end justify's the means" attitude that is so common in movies made nowadays, that a cruel world can only understand cruel answers. I personally think George Orwell's 1984 did it better using common people and real situations. I would seriously worry about a guy that has to torture and make a specially built cell for the woman he loves to be converted to his view point (this is a movie against totalitarianism but his high-handed use of the girl was a bit pot calling kettle black). Hmmm ever heard of the Stockholm syndrome where prisoners fall in love with their captors.....i'm not even gonna mention the worshipfully mask kissing scene ewwww.
Politically this movie is dated at best, down-right pushing the viewer to a misguided view of current British political trends, It might just be that this is 80's comic book politics pushed into current American politics, melded uncomfortably together making us squirm without realising why. Currently in the UK the politically-correct mob won years ago, religion is dying out, sexuality is anything goes from a very young age, std's on the increase and the nice movie scene where 2 parents are sat watching TV with their daughter who says bollox just wouldn't happen in todays single parent society where marriage is also dying out. If your gonna give us a bleak future ahead PLEASE gives us a realistic one
The police officer was well done! his simple exploration of the facts and where the blame of the terrifying crime really lay was good but felt underused, just to have him turn up and give the nod to the girl. In the end this whole movie felt hammed up to me but judge for yourselves guys...the fireworks were pretty :)