Slowww, Segmented, Lacking action, Ambiguous Pretentious Dialogue

Rating: 1/10 (10 December 2006)

Oh my, who knew a movie with a masked villain/hero with two knifes/sai's on the cover could be so unexciting, drab, and strung out. This movie is on life support...a beat...an hour later another heartbeat...do we have life!? No- false alarm. Never has an action movie snailed along so slow. And- if this is *not* supposed to be an action movie- yet a political satire- or a political editorial on fascism- or whatever you want to call it, then it most certainly fails on that front as well. The movie has no real identity, and if it does, the common viewer won't be able to find it after sorting through the tangled spider webs worth of useless dialogue. The common viewer (that isn't already in love with the comic book) will likely find this movie repulsive as I have. Though the character development is actually very complete (and it pretty much has to be considering the enormous amount of time spent on it) the characters are boring. So Evey's parents are black-bagged, by the time we learn that, do we REALLY care? Maybe you did...or will...but I certainly did not.
It's strange too, because the movies starts very interesting in the first few minutes with a historical snapshot and a town square death. Then we're cast forward instantly to the boring fascist action editorial that never takes flight based on- well, based on utter and complete lack of exciting action -save for one scene at the end where V says his one cool line: "what you have our bullets..." Summary: slow, boring, lack of action, too much lame dialogue, too much film made the final cut, idea gets lost in the muck, viewer's attention is not firmly held in place consistently enough to enjoy.
The fans of the comic will likely force themselves to enjoy it and continue to vote it *10*'s on IMDb because of their previous enchantment and attachment to it. Ordinary people like me will continue to see it because it *looks* interesting and will subsequently forget *all* about it approximately 1-5 minutes after the final scene.