Wow!

Rating: 10/10 (27 September 2009)

In the process of organising my movie collection and looking up info. about each one on IMDb I saw that Stephen Fry was in it, (though he's not listed on the box) which made me think it must be something other than the regular fantasy/horror/superman/action stuff - one of many in my son's collection.
So what an amazing surprise. The political message is seriously up to date ... perhaps more now even than 4 years ago, what with the purveyors of economic doom alive and well. I don't live in the UK though I am a Brit. and as someone remarked in their review, it was scary to see it set in England and very 'British', which also makes it funny, though not silly. The comments that V makes that the descent into fascism is everyone's fault for abandoning their common sense, is just riveting.
I think the Title V for Vendetta put me off watching it more than anything else, writing it off as I said above as another super hero flick. Which of course it also is! As Alejandro Frias said in the summary section, it's a mixture of 1984, Phantom of the Opera, and Batman".
Brilliant, exciting and true : )