Stop talking and go kick somebody's ass...

Rating: 5/10 (15 April 2006)

I walked out of the cinema last night, after having watched V for Vendetta and struggled to form any clear notion of what I was feeling. The inevitable question arose from my friends as we walked out of the darkness along the star-spangled carpet, fallen candy and coke trodden beneath our feet; 'What did you think?'. The only semblance of an answer that I could muster was 'What the hell just happened in there?' The couple of hours I just invested in that film were lost, never to be returned.
Top 5 reasons why I felt as though I had just discovered my pocket had been picked:
1. Masky just plain talks too much. Please stop talking and go kick someone's ass.
2. When Masky does kick ass, he spends so much time twirling his damn knives and speaking in alliteration, you actually want the bad guys to kick the crap out of him.
3. What was up with the egg on toast thing? Egg...? Toast...? Masky...?
4. As much as I love to see Stephen Fry on film, I didn't see the point of his character at all. Benny Hill chases? What the....?
5. When you find out who has taken Natalie Portman's character prisoner, the whole story of the prisoner in the next cell and then Masky's altar to her; I really did feel like things were falling apart. At that point, I really couldn't invest in any of the characters or plot and it undermined everything I had already invested.
V For Vendetta...B For Bullshit.