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.
