Very, very, very, very disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (6 August 2006)

This film is getting 5 on it's visuals alone.
Imagine you've seen a trailer for a film, it looks brilliant. Full of thrills, action packed, explosions and good actors. Then it's released onto DVD very quickly. That should be your first indicator that all is not good. Including the film.
If you have seen the movie or TV trailer for this film then you have not only seen the best bits of the film you know pretty much how it ends seeing as it's shown in the trailer.
Set in some future England, where we are ruled by an oppressive government who control every aspect of our lives and any thought of rebellion is destroyed. We have V. No, stop hoping you are going to see his face as it never happens. Yes, I spoiled that fact for you but I didn't want you wasting your hope.
Hugo Weaving plays the mysterious man in the mask who seeks to bring down the terrible tyrannical government and instill hope into the hearts of the populace and free them from their mental and physical shackles.
Natalie Portman plays Evey (but anyone could have played her, quite frankly, Portman brings nothing special to the role at all). Stephen Fry plays her boss, a man with secrets of his own and the excellent John Hurt plays the Chancellor of England, the maniac behind the tyranny.
This film is bits of things like 1984, THX1138, The Island, Logans Run and other films about Dystopian futures.
There are no new ideas and the creators of The Matrix just generally rehash part of their own movie trilogy. Having never read the comic I have no clue how close this is to that.
I watched this with an open mind but was disappointed.