Not as good as it wanted to be.....

Rating: 1/10 (22 January 2007)

I can understand why some people really like this movie...But I was disappointed. Some critic somewhere referred to it as an "George Orwellian"-like movie...I have read his books, saw the animated films...normal ones like "Soylent green"...the very good "Equillibrium"...So my expectations for this movie were high. But it turned out to be a low-budget movie which pretends to be a "big movie".The only message the movie brought over correctly was when Natalie Portman told "V" she met an old friend of hers who did not recognize her, and then she added "Whatever you have done to me, it worked "...and for the action-lovers ; even the sequels to "The Matrix" where better...I can imagine however, one doesn't know the french revolution by heart, never heard of George Orwell, or philosophers like John Lock, Voltaire or Rousseau, or even, philosophy itself. Then this movie could indeed be an interesting introduction, but nothing more....