Unique enough to talk about for hours after

Rating: 8/10 (18 March 2006)

My wife and I have been very picky when it comes to the theater of late. That said, we weren't sure what we were going to see (it was a coin toss between Libertine and V) even as we were on the way to there. V for Vendetta went above our expectations to deliver a story familiar enough to be exciting, but with a uniqueness that kept the show interesting. In fact, I enjoyed the similarity of some elements with Batman Begins and Casshern. I was even more surprised by the fact that with all the formula for Hollywood action films so ubiquitous in recent movies, V for Vendetta actually had something new for me - a strong cast of characters who can act, intellectual dialogue, history and drama, not to mention worthy political theoreticizing. V's main point is not action sequences, which I recall only at the beginning and the end of the film. What you'll get from your ticket price is a decent movie and plenty of discussion about it afterwards with whomever you see it with - something I've been wanting from Hollywood for a long time.