Amazing Film! Don't see many films of this calibre in recent times

Rating: 10/10 (27 September 2006)

Brilliant! In the past few years, films have had appalling scripts on the most part, and concentrated on Special Effects. I heard that this was a political thriller, and I thought that this sounded different, I'm currently developing a political outlook, and also happen to like Natalie Portman. Being British, I also take a keen interest in films based here, to see the media's perception of British life.
This was quite a complex film, and had so many story lines and back-stories going. The characters were really well explored (except the mysterious V of course), and it takes an interesting look at the future. It also shows what a dictatorship could be like in a wealthy nation like the U.K, and shows both sides- the dictator and the terrorist, who would both be perceived as bad people. However, as I heard in another film "One man's terrorist, is another man's freedom fighter"- this truly applies to V, who wants to overthrow the dictatorship of the Chancellor and free the people. He has greatly lines, and comes from an exceptional screenplay, written for the well-educated, including a wide vocabulary of words as well as quotations from Shakespeare. A favourite line of mine was "People shouldn't fear their government, the government should fear it's people"-which I found really thought-provoking. But it's not how some may picture the film so far from what I've said. If you have an image of too old men having a debate across a table for 2 hours..you're dead wrong! There's a nice balance of character development, great script, as well as top action. Meticulously choreographed fights with V, breath-taking effects (particularly with the explosions- I say no more on that front) and moments that really sent a shiver down my spine. A classic film, that should remain popular for generations!