pretentious rubbish

Rating: 1/10 (17 March 2006)

It has been explained much more explicitly by other reviewers, but in short: poor acting, dull script, lame implausible action scenes and in short a complete waste of time for all 6 of us who saw it. Many others have commented on the "message" and "symbolism", both were heavy handed, crude and over done to the extreme. Possibly there was meant to be a parody to modern US politics but this was simplistic at best.
Normally i would sit back and laugh at rubbish like this, if it were not for the irritation of the lack of research carried out by the makers. Being British, the stereotyping, generic settings and set pieces combined with the theory that saying "b*****ks" every 5 minutes makes you English/British -the two of which were freely interchanged, something the Scottish might object to. Accents were awful and even pronounciation was painfully American - most obvious in the word "lever" - a minor point, but by this point it was enough for me to wish that some effort could have been made. Clearly the amount of time i dwelled on this showed how bored i was of the same point being made over and over again.
In summary a good idea that was poorly executed on most levels leaving 2+hours of tired regurgitated poltical rubbish that didn't even tie in with the central story that well - Guy Fawkes was not a freedom fighter or zorro-esquire hero of the people. Basically "Matrix reloaded" all over again -a stupid film that thought it was a lot cleverer than it really was.
Rant over...