Clichéd, uninvolved, poor directing/editing/decision making

Rating: 5/10 (31 May 2008)

This movie's atmosphere and some of the camera-work reminded me of The Running Man (that old Arnie movie 80s stinker) without any of its fun - all those ridiculous scenes with audience members and extras watching television or movies - ridiculously self-absorbed as if watching other audience reacting is stirring. Directors the world over should know better than to show movie's or visuals of actors/actresses/extras watching other movies or TV!!! The last thing I want to watch is other actors and actresses watching movies/television within a movie or TV show - it's completely pretentious, flat, and decadent. It's about as much fun as looking in a mirror of yourself with another mirror behind you. This movie fails as trying to be introspective - it has a decent revenge premise, but the whole big-brother paranoid government setup reminds of bad Arnie 80's movies minus the fun of having Arnie. V is a stuffy pompous snob, supposedly elegant yet revolutionary. The problem with movies these days is that in their effort to create style they take themselves too seriously.