This is not cinema

Rating: 2/10 (21 March 2006)

This is a bad, uninteresting movie, disguised as an intelligent movie for mainstream audiences. I can't believe people like it but who cares. If this is supposed to be the good American cinema of today, then we have to worry about the survival of cinema as we knew it. The Wachowski brothers are definitely assassinating cinema. I have nothing against Natalie Portman, who gives a fine performance here as always. But the entire movie is just plain dull. I mean the political content is good (even if it's too obvious to be smart) but as a movie itself, it's really bad. There is no arch, no real story to grip on, the characters have no emotions, no personal story. The way it's filmed is annoying as is Hugo Weaving who has nothing to do but talking with a mask in a theatrical manner. The fights are not even bad-ass. At the end, soldiers are just standing, waiting for V to kill them, pretending he kicks ass! I think I'm gonna really stop watching Hollywood movies, because it's going downhill and it makes me sad, can't believe kids today are growing up watching this kind of sh**t...