If you read the comic book by Alan Moore then you might know what this is about. If you didn't then see this movie anyway.
The movie V for Vendetta isn't a faithful adaptation of the Alan Moore comic. He asked to have his name removed from it. He didn't ask to be taken off of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or From Hell so that doesn't say much except that V for Vendetta was a story he cared about. And it is the kind of story you can care about.
As a conservative, Christian, Repuplican i could have take a lot of offense at the way the movie portrays the political entities in the film, but i didn't. I didn't becasue I beleive in what the main character V was fighting for,. He was fighting for the ideal that a government is MORE about 'By The People' and 'Of The People' than 'For the People'. in fact V brilliantly underlines this very point when he says "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.'
I will not synposise the film for you. I will tell you that it exciting with a lot of action and violence (not for kiddies) and it is well acted by Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith from The Matrix and Elrond from Lord of the Rings) despite having to wear a full-face mask through the film. Natalie Portman is very beleiveable as a woman who is robbed of her freedom only to be given it all back again as a gift.
And if that isn't enough to entice you to see the film it should be noted that the explosion of familiar sites from London (for those of you that actually WENT to the cast party in '05) is cheerworthy.
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V for Vendetta
Yeah the movie is sick, completely and utterly amazing!
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As someone who loved the comic book, I can't in good conscience say the movie was great, but it was good. I liked it. It sucked as an adaptation, though, I must say.
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I've read the comic too (WAYYYY back in the 80's) and I have long since resigned myself that any adaptation of a comic will be a seperate rendition of the ideas and characters that stands by itself (okay Sin City was a major exception, but that is a different discussion) . In that light it is like the "Wizard of OZ" movie that is nothing like the books or "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" as "Bladerunner". It is a good yarn in its own right and inspired by the comic. But that comic was written 25 years ago and so it works to have it pointedly target the current political outlook rather than the more "cold-warish" flavor of the original.
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I'll concede that point. One of my favorite things about it though? Ben Miles playing Dascombe. For some odd reason, he does oblivious and stupid really well.