hyped garbage

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Perhaps the only example of a 'Bonfire Night' film I can think of, this graphic-novel adaptation casts Hugo Weaving as the vigorously verbose avant-garde anarchist known only as 'V' and places him within a bleak dystopian Britain ripe for an uprising, making a meal out of the whole 'ideas are more powerful than the men behind them' theory while also providing plenty of verbal and visual splendour in the form of a tight script and some even tighter stylish set-pieces. While 'V For Vendetta (2005)' certainly has its faults, especially in its rather slow second act - not to mention the fact that Natalie Portman's English accent is almost criminal, this is an entertaining and, at times, thought-provoking piece that manages to maintain a decent distance from its somewhat touchy subject matter and to exist purely as a piece of fairly intelligent but equally enjoyable filmmaking. 7/10

IMDB 8.2? You have to be joking. Surely this has been trolled up from high fives by Rainbow Warriors. Higher than Fargo and Paper Moon. Next to Chinatown. Mein Gott.V for Vendetta looks like a BBC Telemovie drama production beamed forwards from the early years when digital motion images were novel and Saturday night TV was still in its post Dixon of Dock Green phase. It contents the usual BBC social engineering proselytization but with a simplistic retro feel of mid-Blairite era that makes it look naïve and primitive by this weeks must have in identity politics et al. It gets worse. The script oozes clichés and low end predictability from start to finish. Say it before it happens. Its like an ideology film for 10 year old's and believers in the idealist fantasy of Marxist pedagogy. For that you'd need the check list of every populist evil anti-christ of the period and tick them off as they wander by with only Rupert Murdoch missing. Guanatanamo Oranges and John Hurt's Winston from Radford's 1984 now replacing the Enoch Powell look-a-like big screen Evil Leader is a nice touch.What did they spend $54m on? Natalie Portman in pink and white dress as an entertainment based paedo-trap for evil Bishop? The sets for want of a better word are low budget digitised or the tea room at the office. Most of the film is a fight for crap-rights between bad acting and rubbish dialogue. The Autopsy scene is cringe-worthy. Strike that its all cringe-worthy.This movie could excel only as a parody of bad. However, a parody needs to distance itself from its subject to be identifiable otherwise it is just bad. Whats my point? Eight point Two? This has to be jacked by dark evil forces... hang on... what am I saying?

Characters - They were all believable. All the acting was amazing.Effects - There weren't a lot of effects, but they were all really good (except for V's hand, which was a pretty bad effect - you'll know what I'm talking about when you see it).Sights and Sounds - The sound mixing was great, and so was the cinematography. The world was very believable and I was almost immediately sucked into this world. Plot - There aren't really any plot holes. Most of the characters are intelligent, I especially like V, and they all work together to bring to life this intricate plot.Overall, this movie was amazing. Everything was well done. I highly recommend it.

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