I hate this movie with a fiery passion

Rating: 1/10 (15 September 2013)

There is almost nothing good about this movie. The dialogue is cheesy and ridiculous, the acting is mostly bad (which is odd, because the cast was generally pretty good) and the script appears to have been written by someone who only skimmed the Wikipedia page of the original comic. I bet even the catering sucked. The movie decides to change the title character, "V" into a liberally biased hero. This seems fine, until you remember that he is a psychotic anarchic, terrorist. In fact his political beliefs seem to be the only thing in keeping him in the right, since he probably kills even more people than in the comic, due to the film's complete lack of subtlety, which it also demonstrates by hitting you over the head with the Anti-Bush themes (how exactly does Iraq end in a nuclear war again?)that they had to completely change the setting and premise to squeeze in. This movie is so full of explosions, it might as well be from Michael Bay. In fact, he'd probably do a better job. Most of the other characters are different too; the 16 year old prostitute is now just some random lady who works in the TV studio, her love interest is now gay, so they can shove in a creepy and unnecessary romantic subplot between her and V, the radio announcer is now a British caricature of Glenn Beck, and the dictator goes from being one of the most interesting characters to a cartoon super villain. The worst part is the addition of a virus subplot, meaning the entire population is actually hateful of the government and sympathetic towards V. This is all build-up to the retarded finale which makes no sense at all, and happens to be exactly the opposite of how the comic ends. I would tell you what happens, but it's so thoroughly ridiculous, you have to see it for yourself. Or better yet, don't, because no matter what the rating says, this movie is bad.