Best Movie in 25 Years

Rating: 10/10 (25 March 2006)

I thought this is what movies were all about? They should possess excellent entertainment value (nowadays including special effects) but more importantly, perhaps MOST importantly, a message...a connection...a shared value. V for Vendetta won't seem or feel or sound or play like the greatest movie ever but do any of the very best movies? No, they merge with you in timely harmony; seep in like wine over time into the walls of an oak barrel. Best movie in 25yrs, quietly, subtly, almost surprisingly...the way it should be. Were the fireworks over the top? Maybe, but it was so good overall (even the Chief Inspector, a role player in the truest sense, was incredible and believable). Just see it, and understand. Humanity is all we really have in this physical universe, and any movie that connects us and reaches through the screen to enter our soul deserves a place in the top 250 and plenty of other movies there have no business, we all know it. I hope V for Vendetta claws its way into the top 50 where it inevitably belongs.