V for Vendetta Review

This movie was worth seeing in the theaters. The story seemed pretty original to me and it didn't seem like a Wachowski brothers screenplay. I think they did a good job to stay away from their Matrix series. The emphasis of the movie was more on literature, history and tactics to control mass populations. V speaks in a formal and sophisticated way that could be comical at times, but it holds your interest and makes the character more impressive and feared. He's one of those cool and calculating fighters that does everything better than the rest. As the mystery unravels, V launches his vendetta, which leads to some great action scenes but even greater dialogue. Some of the lines that V has are so brief, unmerciful and to the point that you can't help but admire him. From the very start of the movie, the plot is compared to the Guy Fawkes (hence the mask) Gunpowder plot from the early 1600s and various books and movies such as Macbeth and The Count of Monte Cristo. In the end, there are some interesting messages about ideals and government that relate to today's current events. The only negative was that the movie does run 2 hours and 11 minutes and it doesn't feel any shorter than that. It was totally worth it though.

V for Vendetta = Go See It