Would have been better without the comic-book aspects

Rating: 5/10 (29 April 2006)

I admit that this is much better than most Hollywood films. But there were several major things wrong with it.
Why is V so good at martial arts and knife-throwing? No explanation was ever given. The only reason I can think of is that the Wachowski brothers (or the authors of the original comic-book) think that kind of thing is cool, and they couldn't bear to make a film without these kind of fighting scenes in. At the end he is hit by about five hundred bullets, and then gets up and says "My turn" and kills the soldiers with martial arts and knives - this was a stupid scene, and copied almost exactly from the end of The Matrix, where Keanu Reeves suddenly becomes able to stop bullets and then kills the Agents with martial arts (as I recall).
Why does he have a big house in the country - why is he so rich in general? This reminded me of nothing but Batman. This is a pity, as a lot of the film is supposed to be basically realistic or satirical, but him having a big house and being mysterious and rich is totally unrealistic and not satirical or clever at all. The only explanation I can think of is that it is a comic-book convention.