Begging for v-free vocabulary!

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2006)

A verbose, vitriolic vilification of a futuristic era powered by a vicious voyeuristic government vociferating to the vox populi on the verge of a victorious volte face! OK! OK! Stop with the eloquent lingo, dominated (as determined by the title) by a plethora of vs! Watch this film and I guarantee you too will be begging for v  free vocabulary!
So just who is the mysterious V who exerts both fear and admiration throughout the streets of a dystopian futuristic London? V is an acutely anarchistic masked male, blessed with almost superhuman powers of combat. A physically and emotionally scarred escapee of an inhumane government experiment, he lives isolated in an underground sanctuary filled with art and literature salvaged from a more liberal bygone age. His sole self-driven mission is the execution of a masked vendetta against those responsible for his disfigurement.
Unfortunately, the fact that the main protagonist remains constantly masked is primarily where I feel the film significantly detracts from the message it aims to deliver. You cannot help but spend the whole 132 minutes wondering when the unmasking will take place. To save any disappointment for potential V 'voyeurs', it doesn't!
Whether or not you are swept away by the intended (unsubtle) message of the film, ie that all governments (well the 'Con'servative Government to be precise) are corrupt and hell bent on manipulating a heightening fear of terrorism through in-house biological warfare, this doctrine is seriously diluted, not only by the distracting mask element, but also by the overly lengthy V soliloquies and the sorry fact that the chief government agent, Creedy, appears to have only one string to his vocabulary bow; the word B*LLOCKS!
I could go on.and on and talk more about Vs brutal and far-fetched quest to dispel fear in his ally and love interest, Evey Hammond, played by Natalie Portman, but then I too am in danger (if I've not passed that point already) of sounding as monotonous as V himself; albeit minus the baritone public school vocal chords.
To summarize, without the over zealous monologues and with some more subtle editing, together with a final unmasking of V, this could have proved a more eloquent socio-political commentary and a greater box office success. Though definitely not an outright flop, I certainly won't be rushing to see V for Vendetta 2! Let me quickly add that there isn't going to be one by the way  the late V is ceremoniously catapulted (still masked of course!) via the disused London Underground to detonate a mammoth firework display that rips through the Houses of Parliament in a victorious revolutionary finale  ..but I'm sure you get my drift