5 Min. Long Chills.

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2006)

Not in a good bit has there been a movie I could not wait to review, that the second I got home I sat down at my computer and started typing. If you looking for a fantastic movie, action packed, deep in plot, and makes a statement that most think about but most cannot put to words, let alone movie. V for Vendetta was a movie for the ages that I can almost guarantee will stand up to the test of time and go down in cinematic history as one of the greats. The Wachowski brothers definitely made up for the abomination of the 2&3 matrix with this amazing work.
This movie reminds me a great deal in the book 1984, its message is beyond political. At first glance a viewer would see it as a message against conservatism, but as the movie unfolds you see it is against the opposite end of the spectrum too. It personifies the problems in both ends of the system. It is a message on what the world will become if we keep heading in the direction we are going in. America is destroyed from civil war, England has become ruled in Dictatorship. All that can fix what the would is heading to is a lone martyr to spark the good moral of all people, to realize that the world needs a huge change and fast. V, victim in cell 5. The one survivor of a terrible government controlled "accident" is this martyr. He makes a nation realize that only they can change what's happening, it had to start somewhere, and it started with him. V is an artist, a scholar, the perfect man to be the front for such an epic revolution such as this.
One who goes to see this movie, me included, think that this will be just another comic made into a movie, good for the action but not worth much more. But you leave the theater with a great deal more then what you expected. You leave in shock of getting something you didn't expect. That is what this movie is. Something you don't expect. I have gotten chills in movies before but I have never gotten them to the extent of watching the entire masked population of England march to see Parliaments destruction. You go expecting to see just another super hero, but what you get is a normal man who just has a message, an idea, and ideas cannot be destroyed. instead of your super hero you get a very determined victim who is more of a villain in his own right. Its hard to express but, he is a different, almost refreshing antagonist for a movie such as this. One of the things that set this movies realism was how very possible all the events could be, in some form or another. It is set in the near future, and is all very believable witch makes you think...what is our world really coming to.
This movie is very political, but it is incredibly hard to disagree with. This is due to the fact that its statement is against more then just conservatism, or liberalism, or anything, it has messages against everything so in some points of the movie there are things you will agree with, and that you will absolutely disagree with, but it is that that makes you realize the full ideals that this movie has. In the root of it, it is against the fact that our world is divided but beliefs. Something that our world should be joined by. It is a statement that if we are to stay divided then we are headed down a path that is oblivion (as they put it in a movie.)
After seeing this movie you leave with more then you thought you were going to go in with. Something UN-expected. Something fantastic. Something that will stay with you. I found myself yelling "Hell yes!" at the scream in some parts. It is superb in its on right.
I give it everything I have. This is not a movie soon to be forgotten.
"A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having"