Good, but not core-shaking

Rating: 8/10 (29 July 2006)

As good as this movie was, I can't help but feel that it is treading on grounds already tread - and better if I may add. At times I even found the character "V" laughable, whereas he is meant to be frightening (at least, in the comic). Of course, the topic of this movie is good and intriguing, still it didn't rock my mind like, for example "Equilibrium". The best way I can describe what I felt when watching this is that I constantly felt like I was looking at a great play from behind a dirty window. It just didn't suck me in.
To get back to the grounds "already tread and better": Equilibrium, if you have not yet seen it, waste no more time. Christian Bale's performance in this masterpiece is one of his very best and hit me like a cannonball.