Over-hyped and oversimplified !

Rating: 1/10 (24 November 2011)

I have to admit that I was pretty excited to see V for Vendetta. One of my good friends highly recommended it and he is usually right in these matters but to his discredit this time he was way off. "V for Vendetta" is tedious, boring and ill conceived. It's hard to point out exactly where it goes wrong, because there are so many things wrong with it that it's impossible to lay the blame in one area.
Movie is a political look at perils of conservative government through leftwing looney glasses. The structure of the movie is strange it really cannot decide whether to give more power to moderate character like Finch, these attempts are thwarted (which is a shame). Secondly, it gets awfully tedious looking at V and his stupid mask for 10 minutes, let alone over 2 hours. The film also lacks emotion and depth; I couldn't care less about any of the characters. The script isn't so great either. There's a 20 minute long digression into the story of a lesbian that I didn't get. It also (in not so subtle way) glorifies terrorism; In fact the actress in the movie even says that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. Maybe in this actress's leftwing world one can't tell the difference, but to an intelligent man there is a difference between George Washington (or Bhagat Singh) and Osama Bin Laden.
In short this over-hyped and over-simplified movie just bored me to death. I am glad I was on a movie marathon and watched "There is something about Marry" earlier in the day (way better than V) which kept me in a good mood!