V for Vendetta: Very Vivid, Vivacious, and Vigorous.

Rating: 8/10 (20 August 2006)

I think V for Vendetta is a very powerful movie. It takes direct aim at the current policies of the neoconservatives running our and Britain's governments in a way that is dark, yet at times entertaining and uplifting. The government uses manufactured, manipulated acts of terror to keep the populace in a constant state of fear and willingness to give the government even more power to solve a problem that the government itself has caused. A former prison camp inmate and biological warfare test subject, known only as V, wages a witty warfare against the repressive regime that has taken over Britain, using the spirit of Guy Fawkes and the Fifth of November.
The only thing I didn't like about the movie was its overly left-wing, politically correct stance. In this society, homosexuals are singled out for extermination and those possessing the Koran are shot on sight. I really do not think that this sort of Nazi-type government would be realistic... rather, I would expect those currently repressed by political correctness to be a more realistic target of a regime of this type.