Tacky

Rating: 1/10 (1 May 2006)

Terribly clumsy and tacky piece of student propaganda. The rabid enthusiasm it has caused among ignorant Fight Club fanboys is a clear sign that young people are still easily influenced by sanctimonious demagogues (such as Mr "I'm not worthy to flick the switch that will destroy the Parliament. Ah!" V).
This blowing up of the Parliament was probably the coup de force of the movie and definitively showed its moronic message. The explosions were intercut with shots of V's army revealing themselves as... us, the PEOPLE!
I suppose the message is that any politically ignorant, XBox-playing television slave can go out into the streets and destroy public property. Last time that happened where I live, the old buildings ended up replaced by ugly blocks of concrete for the elderly to rot away in.
Thank you, Wachowski brothers.