V for Vapid

Rating: 2/10 (17 March 2006)

Those who've dissed Alan Moore as a sour-puss for refusing to give his OK to V for Vendetta should read what he told MTV: "(My comic) has been turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country... (The film) is a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neo-conservatives - which is not what 'V for Vendetta' was about."
Indeed, I was reminded of the guys who flood the blogs with cries of Impeach Bush, as if actually booting him out will make the world safe for Ding-Dongs again. Impeach Bush, and guess who gets to be Prez? Elmer Fudd Cheney! In other words, V isn't very well thought out. Stuffed like a turkey with pretentious diatribes only Harold Pinter could love, it is a boring exercise in didactic propaganda meant to appeal to the narcissistic fantasies of teenage boys, complete with the hot babe falling for the nerd! It wants us to believe that we are living under a totalitarian regime. The irony that no totalitarian regime would ever allow V to be made is lost on those behind it! Try making a movie in Cuba that takes potshots at Papa Fidel, and see how far you get!
All I got out of V is that: 1) Natalie Portman wants to be Joan of Arc when she grows up; 2) the Wachowskis know how to blow things up real good; and 3) $50 million doesn't go as far as it used to! Too bad V doesn't share the romanticism of Larry Wachowski, who left his wife for a dominatrix and now lives as preoperative transsexual Laurenca! Now, THAT'S a movie just begging to be made!