A treason

Rating: 2/10 (20 April 2006)

Any fan of the comic will be disappointed : V is no more genius, only a crazy guy who never knows what to do, and doesn't a *single* time in the movie says the word "anarchy" Eric Finch doesn't use his mind anymore but instead has "intuitions" The Commander is no more a dangerous thinking head of state but a small hysterical man who looks more like Hitler than Big Brother.
Alan Moore was right to quit this project, and the Wachowsky brothers have shown that the Matrix was just a one time thing, they won't be able to do a great film, even given a great scenario.
I think that the worse is the political twist made to the story. To quote Moore himself : They "turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.... (This film) is a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by Neo-Conservatives  which is not what (the comic) 'V for Vendetta' was about."
Plus, you'll remark that some little "details" have been erased from the script. No more reference to prostitution, drugs, etc...
Oh, and yeah : V is no more an anarchist master-mind, he is now a crazy super-hero.