The lead actor is a plastic face. It's hard to get past that.

Rating: 3/10 (21 March 2006)

All I have to say is, who made the choice to make a movie in which the lead character has a plastic face? This may work for a comic book, but man, listening to disembodied diatribe after diatribe was tiresome. No facial expressions, not even some soulful eyes to connect to.. I felt about as connected as I did when watching Final Fantasy and at least they had facial expressions. I'd also like to say that the kiss, although I wanted so much to feel it, made me laugh. A close up on real lips kissing plastic ones is a bit silly.
The whole movie was what I expected.. uneven. Neither good nor awful. I couldn't help but feel like I'd seen most of it before.. and much more enjoyably in Equilibrium. There's a great sci-fi scary political future film. I felt passionate about Christian Bale, and the action was fascinating. The action in V was brief and uninspired. I just think it's nearly impossible to feel anything for a character that is constrained to hide behind heavy black robes, a rigid plastic mask and a large hat. Not even much body language except arm gestures! It was disturbing how much of the movie was spent in closeups of the plastic mask face waxing philosophical on politics.