In a future Britain ruled by a highly oppressive regime, a lone anarchist with Guy Fawkes as his idol sets events into motion to fulfill a vendetta..

Rating: 4/10 (24 May 2006)

I went to this movie with high held hopes because I had seen the trailer and it was awesome, the movie was directed by the directors of the Matrix and Natalie Portman shaved her head for it, what could go wrong? Cinematografically it met my expectations, but plot wise,the way the story was told, it was an utter disappointment. I can effectively describe the movie in one sentence: "Heavily threaded with clichÃ©s". The so-called philosophical sentences, the "emotionally charged scenes" that were so exaggerated that it produced a state of nausea, especially when the same lame scene was used more than once at different times to give an extra emotional/flashback effect, the superficial feel of the reactions of the characters to certain events...Don't get me wrong, the story was great, it's worth going to just for the sake of the story and some really great scenes. What gets to me is that the story was so good they didn't need to revert to cheap tricks just to produce a "mood", those guys could have done a much better job with that movie and while I was watching I just felt that a really high potential had just been wasted and as a movie lover, especially for one who has a passion for Utopian, mixed genres like this one, it saddened me deeply..