tales itself too seriously

Rating: 2/10 (30 March 2006)

I went to this movie with low expectations. I just wanted an adventure flick with neat special effects. Alas, that is not what I got. Although I enjoyed the first few minutes I knew I was in trouble when the hero launched forth with a long alliterative soliloquy using the letter V. I think I might have actually enjoyed the outburst if it had been done tongue in cheek. But the writers actually intended us to take it seriously. It was as absurd as the speech by that character, whatever he was called, in the second Matrix. It would have earned a d minus in a college essay. V, I realized sadly after about 20 minutes, was a boring pretentious movie, an attempt at a political message by people who obviously don't have a very good grasp of the subject on which they want to lecture the world. Instead of the directors who did the excellent first Matrix movie, I got the ones who did the two final lame installments in that series. My bad luck.