V-V-V-Very Amazing (Times V)

Rating: 10/10 (18 March 2006)

This was the best movie I have seen in a long time. It was entertaining, compelling, violent, humanistic, and I loved it.
It's a little 1984, a little Phantom of the Opera, and a lot wonderful.
Natalie Portman is charming, as always; Hugo Weaving lays out the most fabulous use of alliteration that I have ever heard in a movie and remains spirited and expressive, despite being cloaked by a unmoving mask; supporting cast members are equally intriguing. The movie never ceases to keep your attention. Even the violence in the film wasn't of your average shoot-em-up type, but a more stylized sort. The stories of the characters become those which you can empathize with; the fights the characters fight become your own; and the struggles and repressions which are laid down to smother a society are as a pillow on the face as a sleeping child to you - they repulse and infuriate.
After leaving this movie, I was moved ... especially to go put a slash through every "W" sticker I saw.