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V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta poster


To be honest I was dreading the watching of V for Vendetta. The trailers I had seen looked horrific, low grade cinema with a blunt, ridiculous story. But my girlfriend is a big fan of the graphic novel and so I rented it out. To my surprise I was gripped in the first 5 minutes and only released as the credits rolled. The movie isn’t brilliant, not by a long shot but it is well worth watching. There is a middle sequence that wavers somewhat but surrounding that is an engaging, well done movie which is appropriate to our times of Guantanamo Bay, the war on Iraq and fear at home.

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 26th, 2006 at 1:43 pm and is filed under AAA, Movie, Review, V for Vendetta, cinema, film. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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    (you're getting sloppy, Paul - that's some terrible image scaling)

    I really thought they should have given the reason for the authoritarian Gov't more attention. V points to the public as the cause of the problem, asking them to wake up and do something about it. Evey flashbacks to scenes of her parents trying to do something about the way society is heading. The missing actor - the complacent / reactionary public at large - is alluded to but not shown. This irritated me - it sticks out, as the rest of the movie is not given to such subtleties. Contrast it with the (very detailed, very sappy) reading of the note in Evey's cell.

    That said, i did enjoy the movie. :)
 

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