Fails on every level

Rating: 3/10 (1 November 2006)

V for Vendetta is probably the worst film in the IMDb 250. It could even be the worst in the Top 1000. This film fails on every level and after watching it I'm amazed at peoples taste. V is full of clichés and frankly I could not find one redeeming aspect to this mess. Alan Moore - the creator of the comic character - disowned this film. Good for him! I never read the comic but I'm told it was quite good.
I'm stumped to list the problems with V because in order to criticize a movie, it needs to have a core, a treatment which you can disagree with. But V has no core, no structure, just a lot of pretensions and intellectual posturing without conviction. I've always liked Natalie Portman - see the amazing Leon - but she's the biggest joke of this film. Her accent is a mess and frankly she looks completely lost. For me, the entire film was a collage of ideas, scenes and themes from other movies. The resultant whole is direction-less, pointless and an embarrassment for the entire team that contributed to this rot.