Silly and Hypocritical

Rating: 4/10 (22 March 2006)

First things first. This movie uses a radical, prejudice and hateful government as the enemy and that is fine. But making it out to be a symbol for the UK and US is silly and the film makers did this.
OK, this movie was based on a Graphic Novel that is strongly pro-Anarchy. The movie, however, was just an anti American/Britan politics movie. It attacked the Conservative party only. The movie has a line that goes something like "Art uses lies to tell the truth while politician use lies to hide the truth. This movie was just as much politics as art and the film makers politicians as they where artist. So are they the liars to hide the truth or to tell the truth. I'd have to say they're lying to hide the truth. The truth being that this movie was just a childish exaggeration of the right. True art isn't Political. You can attack individual views but when you attack an entire Political party it's just politics, and it looses it's beauty as art.
I saw this bumper sticker once that read "Doing my part to pis* off the religious right." I think the Wachowski brothers read this sticker and decided to make this movie. That is how simple minded this film was.
Although this movie is a steaming pile of hypocrisy that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. It had good action and some good dialog. Natalie Portman can't act. Why do people keep giving her jobs. I loved Hugo Weaving as V his voice acting and body movements made me forget about the mask.
I am disappointed in the adaptation from the book to screen. This movie took an Idea and made it a cheap attack on the right. The book is about anarchy people. What the heck.
If you hate the right than this movie is made for you. You can sit there and agree with everything they say, even if it's wrong, and remain unenlightened to the truth.